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Petition of the day

Posted Tue, September 4th, 2012 11:21 pm by Ben Cheng

The petition of the day is:

Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group of the United States House of Representatives v. Gill

Docket: 12-13
Issue(s): (1) Whether Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act, 1 U.S.C. § 7, violates the equal protection component of the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment; and (2) whether the court below erred by inventing and applying to Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act a previously unknown standard of equal protection review.

Certiorari stage documents:

Posted in Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group of the U.S. House of Representatives v. Gill, Cases in the Pipeline

Recommended Citation: Ben Cheng, Petition of the day, SCOTUSblog (Sep. 4, 2012, 11:21 PM), http://www.scotusblog.com/2012/09/petition-of-the-day-327/

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