Gill v. Office of Personnel Management

How courts have described this case

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

• finding that DOMA “mark[ed] the first time the federal government has ever attempted to legislatively mandate a uniform federal definition of marriage — or any other core concept of domestic relations, for that matter”
• stating that the second Comstock factor, history, is only a proxy to determine “the reasonableness of the relation between the new statute and pre-existing federal interests” (quoting Comstock, 130 S. Ct. at 1952) (internal quotation marks omitted)
• holding the federal Defense of Marriage Act (“DOMA”
• “[T]he ability to procreate is not now, nor has it ever been, a precondition to marriage in any state in the country.”
• analyzing rationality of Section 3 of DOMA

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).