Simpson Thacher Represents Members of Congress as Amici to U.S. Supreme Court in Marriage Equality Case
03.10.15
This is only gets display when printing
Simpson Thacher represents 167 members of the U.S. House of Representatives and 44 U.S. Senators as amici curiae in support of petitioners’ challenge to a Sixth Circuit ruling upholding same sex marriage bans in Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and Tennessee. The brief argued that Congress should not be co-opted into enforcing, enabling or abiding by discriminatory state enforced marriage bans, and that the marriage bans undermine federal safeguards for families that advance important national interests, such as social security, military and veterans benefits and others. The case is Obergefell et al. v. Hodges et al., nos. 14-556, 14-562, 14-571 and 14-574.
The Simpson Thacher team included Joe Tringali, Josh Polster, Elisa Lee, Aidan Grano, David Gallo, and Daniel Honeycutt.