Brissett v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “[TJhere is no dispute in the record or the law that sexual orientation has no relevance to a person's ability to contribute to society ”
• “There is no dispute in the record that lesbians and gay men have experienced a long history of discrimination.”
• “The denial of recognition and withholding of marital benefits to same-sex couples does nothing to support opposite-sex parents, but rather merely serves to endanger children of same-sex parents.”
• “The passage of DOMA marks a stark departure from tradition and a blatant disregard of the well-accepted concept of federalism in the area of domestic relations.”
• “Even if the Court were to accept as true, which it does not, that opposite-sex parenting is some how superior to same-sex parenting, DOMA is not rationally related to this alleged governmental interest”
• “[S]ame sex parents can and do have and adopt children.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).