Obergefell v. Hodges, 576 U.S. 644, is the Supreme Court of the United States' own 2015 opinion establishing a constitutional right to same sex marriage, confirmed against the case's own official citation. Its strength is that it is the primary legal text itself, not a secondary summary of what the Court held. Its limit is the ordinary one for any single judicial opinion: it states the majority's reasoning and the citation for later legal analysis, not an independent account of the case's social or religious reception.
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Reliability Tier1
Reliability tier 1: the Court's own primary legal text, confirmed against the case's own official citation. NotesThe Supreme Court of the United States' own opinion in Obergefell v. Hodges, 576 U.S. 644 (2015); the court's ruling establishing a constitutional right to same-sex marriage, not an independent religious-studies account of the debate.
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AuthorSupreme Court of the United States
Publication Year2015
Source Typelegal
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