Legal Opinion
In Re Marriage Cases
California Supreme Court
Decided May 15, 2008No. S147999PublishedCited by 116 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion1
GEORGE, C. J.
In Lockyer v. City and County of San Francisco (2004) 33 Cal.4th 1055 [17 Cal.Rptr.3d 225, 95 P.3d 459] (Lockyer), this court concluded that public officials of the City and County of San Francisco acted unlawfully 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 are unconstitutional. Our decision in Lockyer emphasized, however, that the substantive question of the constitutional validity of the California marriage statutes was not before this…
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