Pinnacle Service Solutions Group, Inc. v. AXA Equitable Life Insurance

How courts have described this case

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• concluding law failed rational basis review but noting inclination to apply heightened scrutiny based on the panel’s opinion
• “[R]ecognizing a gay individual’s fundamental right to marry can in no way influence whether other individuals will marry, or how other individuals will raise families.”
• “[R]ecognizing a gay individual’s fundamental right to marry can in no way influence whether other individuals will marry, or how other individuals will raise families.”
• “[R]ecognizing a gay individual’s fundamental right to marry can in no way influence whether other individuals will marry, or how other individuals will raise families.”
• sustaining a non-recognition challenge where the plaintiffs sued the state registrar of vital records to obtain a birth certificate so that they could legally adopt the daughter they raise together
• declaring unconstitutional Virginia's marriage ban, which has the effect of \needlessly stigmatizing and humiliating children who are being raised” by same-sex couples and \betrays” rather than serves an interest in child welfare

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).