Com­plaint here. [pdf] Var­i­ous plain­tiffs mar­ried to or for­merly mar­ried to and now wid­owed by per­sons of the same sex under Mass­a­chu­setts law after Goodridge filed suit in the United States Dis­trict Court for Dis­trict of Mass­a­chu­setts yes­ter­day (case no. 1:2009cv10309) directly chal­leng­ing the con­sti­tu­tion­al­ity of § 3 of the Fed­eral Defense of Mar­riage Act, Pub L. No. 105–199, 110 Stat. 2419 (1996) (cod­i­fied at 1 U.S.C. § 7) under implied equal pro­tec­tion afforded by the 5th Amendment’s Due Process Clause. (For those who aren’t aware, the “Equal Pro­tec­tion Clause” under which equal pro­tec­tion chal­lenges are most often raised is part of [ . . . ]

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