A landmark civil rights case, what decision ruled that the fundamental right to marry is guaranteed to same-sex couples?

The U.S. Supreme Court case of Obergefell v. Hodges is a consolidation of six lower-court cases rather than one lawsuit. In November 2014, following appeals court rulings that year from the Fourth, Seventh, Ninth, and Tenth Circuits that state-level bans on same-sex marriage were unconstitutional, the Sixth Circuit ruled that it found such bans to be constitutional. This created a split between circuits and led to an almost inevitable Supreme Court review.

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