TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Brittany Sims on Nov 14, 2014

Gay and lesbian couples today filed a petition asking the Supreme Court to decide whether there is a constitutional right to same-sex marriage, the New York Times reports. The petition arrived eight days after the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit upheld bans on same-sex marriage in Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and Tennessee. A second petition focusing on recognition of already-married couples was later  filed from Tennessee. It raises an additional issue: whether the ban on recognition violates married couples’ right to travel between the states, SCOTUS blog reports.The fast pace of the filing was an effort to ensure that the justices be able to hear and decide a case before the current Supreme Court term ends in late June.