Authority: United States District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma (USA)

Date: 01/14/2014

Subject: The United States District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma permanently suspended the application of Part A of the Amendment to the Constitution of Oklahoma, which defines the marriage as the union of a man and woman, because in contrast with the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the USA Constitution: the Court suspended the execution of the order pending a possible appeal decision

Parties: Mary Bishop, Sharon Baldwin, Susan Barton and Gay Phillips v. United States of America, ex rel. Eric H. Holder, Jr., in his official capacity as Attorney General of the United States of America; and Sally Howe Smith, in her official capacity as Court Clerk for Tulsa County, State of Oklahoma

Original language: English

Classification: Freedoms - Art. 9 Right to marry - Equality - Art. 21 Non discrimination

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