Publicker Industries, Inc. v. American-Hawaiian S. S. Co.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the state’s constitutional and statutory ban on same-sex marriage violated the Equal Protection and Due Process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment
• reaching same conclusion in challenge to Utah’s marriage definition in case issued after Windsor
• “The Windsor court did not resolve this conflict in the context of state-law prohibitions of same-sex marriage.”
• “[T]he court notes that its decision does not mandate any change for religious institutions, which may continue to express their own moral viewpoints and define their own traditions about marriage.”
• “[T]he court notes that its decision does not mandate any change for religious institutions, which may continue to express their own moral viewpoints and define their own traditions about marriage.”
• “[Sjeveral doctrinal developments ... demonstrate that the Court's summary dismissal in Baker has little if any precedential effect today.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).