Court Briefs

The URL for this page is: 

http://stasa.net/resources/quaker-friends-resources/court-briefs

A full list of briefs also appears at our Quaker Cloud site:

https://www.fgcquaker.org/cloud/friends-lesbian-gay-bisexual-transgender-and-queer-concerns/resources/friend-court-briefs

Friends for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Concerns (FLGBTQC) is "a North American Quaker faith community that affirms that of God in all people" and focuses on radical love and radical inclusion. 

We have been invited by the law firm Kramer Levin to participate as signatories to several friend of the court briefs in equal marriage cases in the United States. 

For more information on these cases and on our participation, please click here. 

The briefs we have participated in include the following.  To read a brief, click on it in the table, the list, or the attachments:

List:

• • US v Windsor, in the US Supreme Court, 28 February 2013:

  • http://bit.ly/WindsorBrief

  • Hollingsworth v Perry, in the US Supreme Court, 28 February 2013: 

  • http://bit.ly/PerryBrief

  • Kitchen v Herbert (Utah) and Bishop v Smith (Oklahoma), before the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals, 4 March 2014:

  • http://bit.ly/KitchenBrief

  • Baskin v Zoeller (Indiana), before the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, 5 August 2014:

  • http://bit.ly/BaskinBrief

  • DeLeon v Perry (Texas), before the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, 16 September 2014:

  • http://bit.ly/DeLeonBrief

  • Smith v Wright, before the Arkansas Supreme Court, 3 October 2014:

  • http://bit.ly/SmithBrief

  • https://www.scribd.com/doc/241838146/CV-14-427-Faith-Leaders-Amicus-Brief

  • Brenner v Armstrong (Florida) and Grimsley v Armstrong (Florida), before the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, 19 December 2014:

  • http://bit.ly/BrennerGrimsleyBrief

  • Lopez-Aviles v. Rius-Armendariz  (Puerto Rico), before the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals, 2 February 2015:

  • http://bit.ly/Lopez-AvilesBrief

  • Obergefell v Hodges (Ohio), Tanco v Haslam (Tennessee), DeBoer v Snyder (Michigan), and Bourke v Beshear (Kentucky), all from the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals and before the US Supreme Court, 6 March 2015:

  • http://bit.ly/ObergefellBrief

  • Lawson v Kelly (Missouri), before the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals, 26 March 2015:

    • http://bit.ly/LawsonBrief

  • Rosenbrahn v Daugaard (South Dakota), before the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals, 26 March 2015:

  • http://bit.ly/RosenbrahnBrief

  • Jernigan v McDaniel (Arkansas), before the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals, 26 March 2015:

  • http://bit.ly/JerniganBrief

  • Waters v Ricketts (Nebraska), before the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals, 26 March, 2015:

  • http://bit.ly/WatersBrief

  • Barber v Bryant (Mississippi), before the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, 23 December 2016:

  • http://bit.ly/BarberBrief