Legal Documents

Brief filed in the California Supreme Court explaining why right-wing religious groups should not be allowed to participate as parties in our litigation seeking the right to marry for same-sex couples.

This brief responds to four questions posed by the California Supreme Court, including what the differences are between domestic partnership and marriage; what the fundamental right to marry protects; whether the name of marriage could be changed; and the impact, if any, of the federal Full Faith and Credit and Privileges and Immunities Clauses on this case.

This brief replies to the briefs filed by the State of California, Governor Schwarzenegger, the Proposition 22 Legal Defense Fund and the Campaign for California Families and demonstrates why it violates the rights of privacy, due process, intimate association, expression and equality under the California Constitution to deny same-sex couples the freedom to marry.

In this brief, the Respondents' urge the appellate court to affirm the lower court's judgement in full and grant them the right to marry their same-sex partners.