Same-Sex Marriage Wins in Historic Supreme Court Ruling
New York Law Journal, June 29, 2015
Same-Sex Marriage Wins in Historic Supreme Court Ruling
Many of the parties who submitted amicus briefs supporting same-sex marriage were represented by some of the largest and most profitable law firms in the U.S., such as Simpson Thacher & Bartlett on behalf of 167 members of the U.S. House of Representatives and 44 U.S. Senators; Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison on behalf of the Human Rights Campaign and more than 200,000 Americans; Willkie Farr & Gallagher on behalf of 92 plaintiffs who have challenged the constitutionality of bans of same sex marriage; Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, on behalf of constitutional law scholars; Weil Gotshal & Manges for Human Rights Watch, the New York City Bar Association and other groups, and White & Case on behalf of the Legal Services NYC.
