74 Cited authorities

  1. Turner v. Safley

    482 U.S. 78 (1987)   Cited 10,169 times   11 Legal Analyses
    Holding a regulation unconstitutional after noting that the prison "pointed to nothing in the record suggesting" the existence of a rational connection between the regulation and the asserted government interest and that "[c]ommon sense likewise suggests that there is no [such] connection"
  2. Cleburne v. Cleburne Living Center, Inc.

    473 U.S. 432 (1985)   Cited 9,714 times   5 Legal Analyses
    Holding that mental disability is not a quasi-suspect class
  3. Heller v. Doe

    509 U.S. 312 (1993)   Cited 2,343 times   1 Legal Analyses
    Holding that courts must accept a legislature's generalizations under rational basis review "even when there is an imperfect fit between means and ends" or where the classification "is not made with mathematical nicety"
  4. Hollingsworth v. Perry

    570 U.S. 693 (2013)   Cited 954 times   16 Legal Analyses
    Holding that proponents of a ballot initiative who "ha[d] no role ... in the enforcement of " the initiative and were not "agents of the State" lacked standing to defend it on appeal
  5. Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pa. v. Casey

    505 U.S. 833 (1992)   Cited 1,860 times   29 Legal Analyses
    Holding that a spousal notification provision was unconstitutional
  6. Lawrence v. Texas

    539 U.S. 558 (2003)   Cited 1,153 times   33 Legal Analyses
    Holding statute that criminalizes two persons of same sex engaging in intimate sexual conduct unconstitutional under the Fourteenth Amendment
  7. Romer v. Evans

    517 U.S. 620 (1996)   Cited 1,263 times   13 Legal Analyses
    Holding unlawful a state law that precluded local ordinances from protecting homosexuals from discrimination because it "seems inexplicable by anything but animus toward the class it affects"
  8. Roberts v. United States Jaycees

    468 U.S. 609 (1984)   Cited 2,008 times   7 Legal Analyses
    Holding that infringement of the right to associate "may be justified by regulations adopted to serve compelling state interests, unrelated to the suppression of ideas, that cannot be achieved through means significantly less restrictive of associational freedoms"
  9. United States v. Windsor

    570 U.S. 744 (2013)   Cited 674 times   92 Legal Analyses
    Holding unconstitutional under the Fifth Amendment a federal law recognizing opposite-sex-sex but not same-sex marriages because its "principal purpose [was] to impose inequality, not for other reasons like governmental efficiency"
  10. Griswold v. Connecticut

    381 U.S. 479 (1965)   Cited 3,311 times   12 Legal Analyses
    Holding unconstitutional state law that criminalized the use of "any drug, medicinal article or instrument for the purpose of preventing conception"
  11. Rule 56 - Summary Judgment

    Fed. R. Civ. P. 56   Cited 329,129 times   158 Legal Analyses
    Holding a party may move for summary judgment on any part of any claim or defense in the lawsuit
  12. Section 1257 - State courts; certiorari

    28 U.S.C. § 1257   Cited 3,607 times   7 Legal Analyses
    Holding that a final judgment rendered by the highest state court may only be reviewed by the United States Supreme Court
  13. Section 7 - Marriage

    1 U.S.C. § 7   Cited 152 times   9 Legal Analyses
    Containing no money-mandating provisions
  14. Section 1 to 5 - Repealed

    21 U.S.C. § 1 - 21 U.S.C. § 5   Cited 101 times

    21 U.S.C. § 1 to 5 June 25, 1938, ch. 675, §1002(a), formerly §902(a), 52 Stat. 1059; renumbered §1002(a), Pub. L. 111-31, div. A, title I, §101(b)(2), June 22, 2009, 123 Stat. 1784 Section 1, act June 30, 1906ch. 3915, §1June 30, 1906, 34 Stat. 768, made it unlawful to manufacture adulterated or misbranded foods or drugs in Territories or District of Columbia and provided penalty for violations. See sections 331 and 333 of this title. Section 2, act June 30, 1906ch. 3915, §2June 30, 1906, 34 Stat

  15. Section 1738C - Certain acts, records, and proceedings and the effect thereof

    28 U.S.C. § 1738C   Cited 85 times   7 Legal Analyses
    Giving states the power to refuse to recognize same-sex marriages entered into in other states
  16. Section 109.041 - Relationship between adopted child and natural and adoptive parents

    ORS § 109.041   Cited 20 times

    (1) The effect of a judgment of adoption heretofore or hereafter granted by a court of this state shall be that the relationship, rights and obligations between an adopted person and the descendants of the adopted person and (a) The adoptive parents of the adopted person, their descendants and kindred, and (b) The natural parents of the adopted person, their descendants and kindred shall be the same to all legal intents and purposes after the entry of such judgment as if the adopted person had been

  17. Section 109.060 - Legal status and legal relationships when parents not married

    ORS § 109.060   Cited 13 times

    The legal status and legal relationships and the rights and obligations between a person and the descendants of the person, and between a person and parents of the person, their descendants and kindred, are the same for all persons, whether or not the parents have been married. ORS 109.060 1957 c.411 §1

  18. Section 106.010 - Marriage as civil contract; age of parties

    ORS § 106.010   Cited 10 times

    Marriage is a civil contract entered into in person by males at least 17 years of age and females at least 17 years of age, who are otherwise capable, and solemnized in accordance with ORS 106.150. ORS 106.010 Amended by 1965 c.422 §1; 1975 c.583 §1

  19. Section 106.150 - Form of solemnization; witnesses; solemnization before organization

    ORS § 106.150   Cited 9 times

    (1) In the solemnization of a marriage no particular form is required except that the parties thereto shall assent or declare in the presence of the person, religious organization or congregation, or secular organization, authorized to solemnize marriages under ORS 106.120, and in the presence of at least two witnesses, that they take each other to be spouses in a marriage. (2) All marriages, to which there are no legal impediments, solemnized before or in any religious organization or congregation

  20. Section 109.243 - Relationship of child resulting from assisted reproduction to mother's spouse

    ORS § 109.243   Cited 7 times

    The relationship, rights and obligation between a child conceived as a result of assisted reproduction and the mother's spouse shall be the same to all legal intents and purposes as if the child had been naturally and legitimately conceived by the mother and the mother's spouse if the spouse consented to the performance of assisted reproduction. ORS 109.243 Amended by 2017 Ch. 651,§ 5, eff. 1/1/2018. 1977 c.686 §6 See note under 109.239.

  21. Section 1.106-1 - Contributions by employer to accident and health plans

    26 C.F.R. § 1.106-1   Cited 4 times

    (a) The gross income of an employee does not include the contributions that the employer makes to an accident or health plan for compensation (through insurance or otherwise) to the employee for personal injuries or sickness incurred by the employee, the employee's spouse, the employee's dependents (as defined in section 152 determined without regard to section 152(b)(1), (b)(2), or (d)(1)(B)), or any child (as defined in section 152(f)(1)) of the employee who as of the end of the taxable year has

  22. Section 101-015-0026 - Domestic Partnership

    Or. Admin. R. 101-015-0026

    (1) Certificate of Registered Domestic Partnership. When a Registered Domestic Partnership exists and the eligible employee wants to enroll the domestic partner or the domestic partner's eligible children in benefit plans, the employee may electronically enroll or submit enrollment update forms to the agency at the appropriate time as defined by PEBB enrollment rules. (2) PEBB Affidavit of Domestic Partnership. An eligible employee and an individual of the opposite or same sex without a Certificate