In re Marriage Cases
Below are the court documents filed in the California marriage case, from the initial Superior Court ruling to the Supreme Court's historic decision.
Court Documents
Amicus Briefs in Support of Marriage Equality:
- Opinion, issued 05.15.08
- Press Release from the Court, summarizing the opinion, issued 05.15.08
- Order Denying Petitions for Rehearing and Motions for Stay, issued 06.04.08
- Proposition 22 Legal Defense and Education Fund's Petition for Rehearing, filed 05.22.08
- Petitioner's Answer to Prop 22's Petition for Rehearing, filed 05.28.08
- Campaign for California Families' Petition for Rehearing and Motion for Stay, filed 05.29.08
- Petitioner's Answer to Campaign for California Families' Petition for Rehearing, filed 06.02.08
- Letter Brief Seeking Modification of Opinion, from the Attorney Generals of Ten States, filed 05.30.08
- Petitioner's Answer to the Letter Brief of the Attorney General of Nine States, filed 06.02.08
- Consolidated Opening Brief, filed 04.02.07
- Consolidated Reply Brief on the Merits, filed 08.17.07
- Consolidated Supplemental Brief, filed 08.17.07
- Consolidated Supplemental Reply Brief, filed 08.31.07
- Consolidated Answer to Amicus Curiae Briefs, filed 11.13.07
Amicus Briefs in Support of Marriage Equality:
View a complete list of organizations and individuals who filed amicus briefs supporting marriage equality at the Supreme Court (pdf)
Read the amicus briefs (all documents are pdf files):
- California NAACP
- NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc.
- The Civil Rights Clinic at Howard University School of Law
- MALDEF and Other Civil Rights Organizations
- Asian Pacific Islander Groups
- California Cities and Counties
- Religious Organizations and Religiously Affiliated Individuals
- American Psychological Association
- American Psychoanalytic Society
- Bar Associations
- Bar Association of San Francisco
- Santa Clara County Bar Association
- California Legislators
- Family Law Professors
- International Human Rights Clinic, University of Toronto
- Professors Kathleen Sullivan and Pam Karlan
- Professor William Eskridge
- Professor Jesse Choper
- Professor Joseph Grodin
- Professor M.V. Lee Badgett & Senior Research Fellow Gary J. Gates
- American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers
- Legal Momentum, ERA, California Women’s Law Center
- Southern Poverty Law Center
- Equal Justice Society
- Council for Secular Humanism and Center for Inquiry
- Out and Equal
- Anti-Defamation League & LGBT Community Centers
- GLAD and The Equality Federation
- National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
- People for the American Way and LGBT Bar Associations and Civil Rights Organizations
Court Documents
- Court's Opinion, issued 10.05.06
- State's Opening Brief in Woo, Tyler, CCSF, and Clinton
- Woo Respondents' Answer Brief
- State's Reply Brief in Woo, Tyler, CCSF, and Clinton
- Woo Respondents' Response to Amici Briefs
- State's Response to Amici Briefs in Woo, Tyler, CCSF, and Clinton
- Prop 22's Opening Brief
- CCSF's Response Brief
- Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon Intervenors' Response Brief
- Prop 22's Reply Brief
- CCF's Opening Brief
- CCSF's Response Brief
- Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon Intervenors' Response Brief
- CCF's Reply Brief
- The California NAACP
- Religious Organizations And Religiously Affiliated Individuals
- Asian Pacific Islander Groups
- Civil Rights Organizations
- International Human Rights Organizations And Law Professors
- Additional California And National LGBT Organizations
- Women's Rights Organizations
- California, Massachusetts, And National LGBT Organizations
- Judge Kramer's Final Decision, filed 04.13.05
- Complaint in Woo v. Lockyer, filed 09.01.04
- NCLR's Opening Brief, filed 09.02.04
- State's Opposition Brief, filed 10.08.04
- NCLR's Reply to the State, filed 11.23.04
- NCLR's Opposition to Campaign/Fund Parties, filed 12.03.04