Second Circuit· 10/18/2012

Windsor v. United States

Citations

699 F.3d 169
2012 WL 4937310
110 A.F.T.R.2d (RIA) 6370
2012 U.S. App. LEXIS 21785

How courts have described this case

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concluding that homosexuality qualifies as a quasi-suspect classification deserving of heightened scrutiny
holding that Baker was not controlling as to constitutionality of DOMA, reasoning in part that “[i]n the forty years after Baker, there have been manifold changes to the Supreme Court’s equal protection jurisprudence” that would warrant an exception to the general rule
finding intermediate scrutiny appropriate in assessing the constitutionality of Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act
listing parallels between the status of women at the time the Court found they constituted a suspect class and homosexual individuals today, and finding homosexual persons to be quasi-suspect class based in part on analogy to gender
characterizing the law as “an unprecedented breach of longstanding deference to federalism”
“sexual orientation is a sufficiently distinguishing characteristic to identify the discrete minority class of homosexuals”

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Judges: Jacobs, Straub, Droney

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