Citizens for Equal Protection v. Jon C. Bruning, Attorney General Dave Heineman, Governor, in Their Official Capacities

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that Nebraska’s law limiting marriage to opposite-sex couples was not “inexplicable by anything but animus towards same-sex couples”
• holding that plaintiffs had “satisfie[d] the case or controversy requirement of Article III” by showing that the defendants fell within the Ex parte Young exception
• discussing Romer and concluding that “the Supreme Court has never ruled that sexual orientation is a suspect classification for equal protection purposes”
• explaining that “[i]f sexual orientation, like race, were a ‘suspect classification’ for purposes of the Equal Protection Clause, then [the plaintiffs’] focus on the political burden erected by a constitutional amendment would find support” in several Supreme Court cases.
• upholding Nebraska constitutional provision that precludes recognition of out-of-state same-sex marriages
• upholding Nebraska constitutional provision that precludes recognition of out-of-state same-sex marriages

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).