Long Beach Memorial Medical Center v. Allstate Ins. Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the right to marry is “one of the ‘basic civil rights of man,’ fundamental to our very existence and survival”
• recognizing that “the right to marry is of fundamental importance for all individuals”
• determining that states cannot require individuals with child support obligations to obtain court approval in order to marry
• determining that states cannot require individuals with child support obligations to obtain court approval in order to marry
• recognizing individual’s right to marry part of fundamental “right of privacy” implicit in fourteenth amendment’s due process clause
• holding restriction on marriage unconstitutional where a state had other, less onerous means to realize its interests

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).