Legal Opinion
Largess v. Supreme Judicial Court for the Massachusetts
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided June 29, 2004No. 04-1621PublishedCited by 45 opinions
1Per curiam
Plaintiffs brought suit in United States District Court against the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts (the “SJC”) and others, alleging that the remedy adopted in the same-sex marriage decision, Goodridge v. Department of Public Health, 440 Mass. 309, 798 N.E.2d 941 (2003), violated their rights under the Guarantee Clause of the federal Constitution. The SJC, in a divided opinion, held in Goodridge that “barring an individual from the protection, benefits, and obligations of civil marriage solely because that person would marry a person of the same sex violates the Massachusetts…
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