Legal Opinion
Strauss v. Horton
California Supreme Court
Decided June 17, 2009No. S168047, S168066, S168078PublishedCited by 57 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
GEORGE, C. J.
For the third time in recent years, this court is called upon to address a question under California law relating to marriage and same-sex couples.
In Lockyer v. City and County of San Francisco (2004) 33 Cal.4th 1055 [17 Cal.Rptr.3d 225, 95 P.3d 459] (Lockyer), we were faced with the question whether public officials of the City and County of San Francisco acted lawfully by issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples in the absence of a judicial determination that the California statutes limiting marriage to a union between a man and a woman were unconstitutional. We…
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