The Federal Marriage Amendment (FMA),also referred to by proponents as the Marriage Protection Amendment,was a proposed amendment to the United States Constitution that would legally define marriage as a union of one man and one woman. The FMA would also prevent judicial extension of marriage rights to same-sex couples.
The United States District Court for the District of Nebraska is the federal district court whose jurisdiction is the state of Nebraska. Court offices are in Omaha and Lincoln.
Utah Constitutional Amendment 3 was an amendment to the Utah state constitution that sought to define marriage as a union exclusively between a man and woman. It passed in the November 2,2004,election,as did similar amendments in ten other states.
Republican Party of Minnesota v. White,536 U.S. 765 (2002),was a decision of the Supreme Court of the United States regarding the First Amendment rights of candidates for judicial office. In a 5–4 decision,the court ruled that Minnesota's announce clause,which forbade candidates for judicial office from announcing their views on disputed legal and political issues,was unconstitutional.
Carlos F. Lucero is an American attorney and jurist serving as a senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.
William Jay Riley was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.
Sandra Lea Lynch is an American lawyer who serves as a senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. She is the first woman to serve on that court. Lynch served as chief judge of the First Circuit from 2008 to 2015.
Nebraska Initiative 416 was a 2000 ballot initiative that amended the Nebraska Constitution to make it unconstitutional for the state to recognize or perform same-sex marriage,same-sex civil unions or domestic partnerships. The referendum was approved on November 7,2000,by 70% of the voters. The initiative has since been struck down in federal court and same-sex marriage is now legally recognized in the state of Nebraska.
Charles Joseph Siragusa is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of New York.
John Wade Brorby is an inactive Senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.
Richard Lee Young is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana.
Thomas Beall Griffith is an American lawyer and jurist who served as a U.S. circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 2005 to 2020. Currently,he is a lecturer on law at Harvard Law School,a fellow at the Wheatley Institute at Brigham Young University (BYU),and special counsel in the Washington,D.C. office of the law firm of Hunton Andrews Kurth.
Frank John Magill was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.
Norman Kenneth Moon is an American lawyer who has served as a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia.
George Caram Steeh III is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan.
Citizens for Equal Protection v. Bruning,455 F.3d 859,was a federal lawsuit filed in the United States District Court for the District of Nebraska and decided on appeal by the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. It challenged the federal constitutionality of Nebraska Initiative Measure 416,a 2000 ballot initiative that amended the Nebraska Constitution to prohibit the recognition of same-sex marriages,civil unions,and other same-sex relationships.
Same-sex marriage has been legal in Nebraska since June 26,2015,when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in the case of Obergefell v. Hodges that the denial of marriage rights to same-sex couples violates the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Following the court ruling,Attorney General Doug Peterson announced that the state of Nebraska would comply and recognize same-sex marriages.
Robert Francis Rossiter Jr. is the Chief United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Nebraska.
Leonard Steven Grasz is an American attorney and jurist serving as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.
Susan Mason Bazis is an American lawyer who has served United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Nebraska since 2024. She previously served as a United States magistrate judge of the same court from 2017 to 2024.
