Autorità: United States District Court for the Northern District of California (USA)

Data: 04/08/2010

Oggetto: La sentenza ha sancito l’illegittimità della Proposition 8, che bandisce i matrimoni omosessuali prevedendo che solo il matrimonio fra un uomo e una donna sia valido e riconosciuto in California, in quanto contraria alla Due Process Clause e alla Equal Protection Clause del Quattordicesimo Emendamento alla Costituzione degli Stati Uniti; la Corte ha altresì valutato come irrilevante l’approvazione della Proposition 8 tramite referendum popolare sancendo che “i diritti fondamentali non possono essere sottoposti a un voto”.

Parti: Kristin M Perry, Sandra B Stier, Paul T Katami and Jeffrey J Zarrillo e City and Council of San Francisco v Arnold Schwarzenegger, in his official capacity as Governor of California; Edmund G Brown Junior, in his official capacity as Attorney General of California; Mark Bhorton, in his official capacity as Director of the California Department of Public Health and State Registrar of Vital Statistics; Linette Scott, in her official capacity as Deputy Director of Health Information & Strategic Planning for the California Department of Public Health; Patrick O’Connell, in his official capacity as Clerk-Recorder of the County of Alameda; and Dean C Logan, in his official capacity as Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk for the County of Los Angeles e Dennis Hollingsworth, Gail J Knight, Martin F Gutierrez, Hakshing William Tam, Mark A Jannson and PROTECTMARRIAGE.COM – YES ON 8, A Project of California Renewal, as official proponents of Proposition 8

Lingua Originale: Inglese

Classificazione: Libertà - Art. 9 Diritto di sposarsi - Uguaglianza - Art. 21 Non discriminazione

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