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Sexuality and the Law

Law Faculty Publications

2015

Obergefell

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Marriage Equality Comes To Wisconsin, Carl W. Tobias Jan 2015

Marriage Equality Comes To Wisconsin, Carl W. Tobias

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Marriage equality has swept America. Numerous federal judges, including Western District of Wisconsin Judge Barbara Crabb, have invalidated state proscriptions on same-sex marriage. This paper scrutinizes U.S. litigation, Crabb’s opinion, Seventh Circuit affirmance, and Supreme Court resolution. Finding that Wisconsin shows how to efficaciously institute full marriage equality, even as other states have not, the piece affords future suggestions.