Tag: Supreme Court

A supreme court judge in Panama has reportedly ruled against two separate efforts to legalize same-sex marriage in the country. We first reported about gay Panamanian lawyer Iván Chanis Barahona's fight earlier this month. The highest court in the country heard arguments over the last two months and now, Justice Luis Ramón Fábrega has reportedly delivered a draft ruling against two cases that were combined into one: a suit filed by a gay couple who wed in the UK and...

The Texas Supreme Court ruled on Friday that it might not be necessary to provide married same-sex couples with the same benefits as their opposite-sex counterparts. In a unanimous decision, the court reversed a lower court’s ruling in favor of Houston’s decision to extend spousal benefits to the same-sex spouses of city employees, arguing that the “reach and ramifications” of the rights of gay couples have yet to be determined, The Dallas Morning News reports. The case has been sent back...

Lambda Legal: 'Its implications are far reaching' A Colorado baker’s fight to not to bake wedding cakes for gay couples is heading to the US Supreme Court. The high court announced today that it will hear the case of Masterpiece Cakeshop owner Jack Phillips who turned away same-sex couples from his bakery in Lakewood, Colorado. It was in July 2012 that Dave Mullins and Charlie Craig requested a rainbow-layered cake from the bakery. Phillips told them his faith kept him from accepting the...

In May 2014 the bakery agreed to pay damages of £500, as they had breached equality legislation and directly discriminated against a customer. The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom will hear a case involving Christian bakery owners who refused to bake a cake with a pro same-sex marriage slogan on it. The Christian-run family bakery Ashers in Belfast was found guilty of discrimination in 2014 after the owners refused service to a customer, marriage equality campaigner Gareth Lee, who asked...

'Today, history has been made and love has won' Bermuda legalized same-sex marriage yesterday (5 May) after a long and arduous Supreme Court case. Bermudian Winston Godwin and his Canadian fiancé, Greg DeRoche fought for the right to be married on the British island territory. The Registrar-General rejected their application to be married on the island, so they took their fight to the top court, arguing that the Human Rights Act took primacy in Bermuda. Puisne Judge Charles-Etta Simmons said in the ruling:...

House Bill 780 claims the U.S. Supreme Court overstepped "constitutional bounds." Three Republican lawmakers filed today a new bill, which seeks to ban gay marriage in North Carolina, CBS reports. The "Uphold Historical Marriage Act" aims to invalidate the U.S. Supreme Court's 2015 ruling on same-sex marriage, claiming they violated "constitutional bounds" when the Court dismantled Amendment One. More than 60 percent of those who cast a ballot in May 2012 voted in favor of Amendment One, which prohibited North Carolina...

A bill has been preliminarily approved in Texas, which would allow judges and officials to refuse to issue same-sex marriage licences. The bill would defend any judge or official with a religious objection to same-sex marriage. The proposed by was put forward by Senator Brian Birdwell. It passed on Tuesday with 21-10. It has a clause which means judges can only refuse if another official steps in to issue the legal documents for marriage. But it does allow documents to be sent electronically...

After Trump said this week that he wouldn’t appoint a Supreme Court justice to attempt to roll back same-sex marriage, but one of his prospective picks has actually made some pretty disturbing comments. Despite President-elect Trump saying that same-sex marriage is “settled”, he also said he wanted to appoint justices who would challenge the 1973 abortion rights ruling Roe v Wade. One of those conservative judges is William H Pryor Jr, who has in the past suggested that same-sex couples should...

A Bessemer attorney, who is against last year’s order by the U.S. Supreme Court legalizing gay marriage nationwide, on Wednesday filed a federal lawsuit against the five justices on the high court who made up the majority in that ruling. “Defendants (justices) goes beyond a manipulation, twist, strain, or unique perspective on the text and crosses over in to an abandonment of the Constitution,” attorney Austin Burdick states in the lawsuit. Burdick filed the lawsuit in Birmingham in the U.S. District...

The most memorable moments of 2015 raised trillions of questions inserted in Google search throughout the whole year. One of them was same-sex marriage and equality. 2015 became the year when Supreme Court recognized the Constitution guarantees marriage equality to gay and lesbian couples in all the 50 states in the USA. 26th of June 2015 became a historical even in a life of all LGBT people who felt free to marry whoever they want to. Google couldn’t miss this...

This Sunday in New Delhi was colorful as hundreds made up the Pride Rally that marched through the town. This should have been impossible. Homosexuality in India has long been a taboo subject. The British Raj (King), led by his Christian beliefs, instituted Section 377 and made sex between same sex persons punishable by law. In 2009, the Delhi High Court tried to change this, stating that it is unconstitutional to punish sex between two consenting adults but this...

Citizens spent nearly $800 million on same-sex marriage events for six LGBT months, and the tax payments equal to $52 million. After the US Supreme Court decision in June 2015 concerning the equality of marriage, 96,000 same-sex weddings were registered all over the country over period of time. Experts from the University of California made conclusions concerning the positive impact of the Supreme Court of the US verdict on the country's economy. So, 96,000 gay weddings ensured the creation of nearly 10 000 new...

Almost a million of LGBT Americans have made their coming out on Facebook this year. A significant increase of users’ recognition in social networks has become a great testament of the LGBT movement achievements. A new investigation showed that almost one million of LGBT Americans have made their coming out with the help of Facebook this year. mic.com Within 12 months, nearly 800,000 of Americans admitted their homosexuality or their transgender identity in the world's most popular social network. It was made by...

Love won! The president of America, Barack Obama, called the decision of Supreme Court concerning same - sex marriage "a victory for America". The US Supreme Court on Friday 26th, June 2015 has put an end to the long-term question of the admissibility of same sex marriages: the highest court in the United States made a decision that the Constitution guarantees same sex couples the right to marry. Thus, the court lifted the ban on gay marriage in 14 states,...