Sex-Based Classifications

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  • Determines the constitutionality of Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). Section 3 defines marriage as between one man and one woman.
  • Considered whether the Fraternal Order of Eagles' scope of operations made it a "public accommodation" under state law, forbidding it to discriminate against female members.
  • Determined whether it is a violation of equal protection to apply a hundred-year-old Massachusetts law that denies marriage to persons who could not legally marry in their home state to same-sex couples seeking to marry in Massachusetts.
  • Decided the constitutionality of a ban on same-sex marriage in Maryland.
  • Determined whether the Boy Scouts of America have a constitutional right to revoke the membership of a scout leader for being gay despite state law prohibiting such discrimination in places of public accommodation.
  • Determined the constitutionality of state anti-sodomy laws.
  • Determined whether denying same-sex couples the right to marry violated Vermont's marriage statutes and/or Vermont's Common Benefits Clause.
  • Determines whether a school's policy that prohibits students from wearing certain breast cancer awareness bracelets is based on stereotypes concerning the men and women's roles.
  • This brief is in support of relief for petitioner based on prosecutorial misconduct due to prosecutor’s focus during trial on petitioner's sexual involvements with men other than her husband.
  • Considered the constitutionality of a Washington state ban on same-sex marriage.

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