Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "Sevcik v. Sandoval is the lead case that successfully challenged the Nevada's denial of same-sex marriage as prohibited by that state's constitution and statutory law. The plaintiffs' complaint was initially filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada on April 10, 2012, on behalf of several couples denied marriage licenses. These couples challenged the denial on the basis of the U.S. Constitution's Fourteenth Amendment guarantee of equal protection. On November 26, 2012, Chief District Judge Robert C. Jones ruled against the plaintiff same-sex couples, granting in part a motion to dismiss the complaint against the Nevada government officials named in it. The plaintiffs appealed to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on December 3, 2012.A three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit heard oral arguments in Sevcik and two related cases, Jackson v. Abercrombie and Latta v. Otter, on September 8, 2014. On October 7, the panel reversed the lower court's ruling in Sevcik, remanding the case back to district court with direction to enter a judgment in favor of the plaintiffs. This effectively legalized same-sex marriage in Nevada. After at least one judge on Court of Appeals asked for a vote on the defendants' petition to have the case reheard by a larger, 11-judge panel, no majority of judges on the Ninth Circuit would agree; thus the rehearing was denied on January 9, 2015."@en }
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- Sevcik_v._Sandoval abstract "Sevcik v. Sandoval is the lead case that successfully challenged the Nevada's denial of same-sex marriage as prohibited by that state's constitution and statutory law. The plaintiffs' complaint was initially filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada on April 10, 2012, on behalf of several couples denied marriage licenses. These couples challenged the denial on the basis of the U.S. Constitution's Fourteenth Amendment guarantee of equal protection. On November 26, 2012, Chief District Judge Robert C. Jones ruled against the plaintiff same-sex couples, granting in part a motion to dismiss the complaint against the Nevada government officials named in it. The plaintiffs appealed to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on December 3, 2012.A three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit heard oral arguments in Sevcik and two related cases, Jackson v. Abercrombie and Latta v. Otter, on September 8, 2014. On October 7, the panel reversed the lower court's ruling in Sevcik, remanding the case back to district court with direction to enter a judgment in favor of the plaintiffs. This effectively legalized same-sex marriage in Nevada. After at least one judge on Court of Appeals asked for a vote on the defendants' petition to have the case reheard by a larger, 11-judge panel, no majority of judges on the Ninth Circuit would agree; thus the rehearing was denied on January 9, 2015.".