Golinski v. Office of Personnel Management
Lawsuit filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Golinski v. Office of Personnel Management, 824 F. Supp. 2d 968 (N.D. Cal. 2012), was a lawsuit filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. The plaintiff, Karen Golinski, challenged the constitutionality of section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which defined, for the purposes of federal law, marriage as being between one man and one woman, and spouse as a husband or wife of the opposite sex.
Golinski v. Office of Personnel Management | |
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Court | United States District Court for the Northern District of California |
Full case name | Karen Golinski, Plaintiff, v. Office of Personnel Management, et al., Defendants. |
Decided | February 22, 2012 |
Citation(s) | 824 F. Supp. 2d 968 |
Case history | |
Subsequent action(s) | On appeal in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals (Nos. 12-15388 and 12-15409); Petition for certiorari before judgment in the U.S. Supreme Court (No. 12-16), denied June 27, 2013 |
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Holding | |
Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act does not substantially relate to an important government interest or rationally relate to a legitimate government end. | |
Court membership | |
Judge(s) sitting | Jeffrey White |
Keywords | |
Fifth Amendment, Equal protection, Defense of Marriage Act, Same-sex marriage |
On February 22, 2012, the District Court held section 3 unconstitutional. The case was appealed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. The Department of Justice (DOJ), on July 3, 2012, asked the Supreme Court to take the case before the Ninth Circuit decided it, so it could be heard with two other DOMA-related cases, Gill v. Office of Personnel Management and Massachusetts v. United States Department of Health and Human Services.
The Ninth Circuit delayed oral argument pending action by the Supreme Court. Following that Court's decision in United States v. Windsor, the appeal was dismissed on July 23, 2013.