Same-sex couples have a constitutional right to marry, the California Supreme Court ruled Thursday. The court’s 4-to-3 decision striking down state laws that had limited marriages to unions between a man and a woman makes California only the...

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Not long into the oral argument before the California Supreme Court in March over whether gay and lesbian couples have a constitutional right to marry, Chief Justice Ronald M. George showed his hand. Three times he quoted from the court’s 1948...
Same-sex couples have a constitutional right to marry, the California Supreme Court ruled Thursday. The court's 4-to-3 decision striking down state laws that had limited marriages to unions between a man and a woman makes California only the...
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in the news “In view of the substance and significance of the fundamental constitutional right to form a family relationship,” Chief Justice Ronald M. George wrote of marriage for the majority, “the California Constitution properly must be...