Supreme Court To Consider Sept. 29 Whether To Hear Same-Sex Marriage Cases
WASHINGTON — On September 29, the justices of the Supreme Court will be considering whether to hear a case about same-sex couples’ marriage rights and, if so, which one to take.
The justices will be meeting on that date to consider the mountain of case requests — called petitions for a writ of certiorari — that came in over the summer. They will be considering seven different petitions at that conference from various state and county officials asking the justices to hear their case, according to updated docket information from the court on Wednesday.
The cases present challenges to bans on same-sex couples’ marriage and, in all cases but one, recognition of such marriages granted out of state. The case out of Oklahoma only involves the marriage ban and is brought in a petition from Tulsa County Clerk Sally Howe Smith. The other petitions address marriage and marriage-recognition bans and come from cases out of Indiana, Utah, Virginia, and Wisconsin.
In Indiana, Utah, and Wisconsin, each state’s attorney general filed the petition on behalf of state officials. In Virginia, there are three petitions: one from Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring, who opposes the ban as being unconstitutional, and two from court clerks, Norfolk Circuit Court Clerk George Schaefer and Prince William County Court Clerk Michele McQuigg.
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