Same-sex marriage is heading back to the Supreme Court as married same-sex couples asked the Supreme Court Friday to hear their appeal of a recent appeals court ruling upholding Ohio’s ban on recognizing their marriages, which were granted in other states, reports Buzzfeed.
“These cases are about love, from birth to death,” the lawyers for the plaintiffs write, in setting up the case. “Ohio does not contest the validity of their out-of-state marriages; it simply refuses to recognize them,” they later note.
The lawyers, which include the ACLU and Lambda Legal and are led by longtime Ohio advocate Alphonse Gerhardstein, filed the petition for a writ of certiorari on Friday, asking the court to take the case and reverse last week’s decision by the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals upholding Ohio’s 2004 state and constitutional amendment barring recognition of same-sex couples’ marriages.
The Ohio litigation is one of four cases expected to hit the Supreme Court on Friday or Monday, according to lawyers in the cases.
