Legal Documents

The New York State and New York City Chapters of the National Association of Social Workers and other child welfare and community organizations detail the various ways in which children are harmed when same-sex couples are prevented from marrying. Amici discuss the tangible and material benefits and protections to children who are part of a married family and highlights how marriage for same-sex couples benefit children in those families. LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae LLP is counsel for amici.

The National Organization for Women, the Women's Bar Association of the State of New York and Pace Women's Justice Center ﾗ three organizations dedicated to the advancement of equal rights and the eradication of discrimination against women ﾗ explain that barring same-sex couples from marrying in New York State constitutes sex discrimination and thus violates the State's Constitution. Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP is counsel is amici.

The New York County Lawyers' Association and the National Black Justice Coalition, a civil rights organization of black lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people and allies dedicated to fostering equality, demonstrate that the same unconstitutional rationalizations that were used to justify the prohibition against interracial marriage are being used today to preclude same-sex couples from marrying. Viewed against this historical background, amici submit that the prohibition on civil marriage between same-sex couples must be recognized as unconstitutional.