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Keisha Patel

The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, LDF, has participated as a friend-of-the-court in cases across the nation, including California, Maryland, and New York, trying to establish the right to marry for same-sex couples.

One of the most well-known cases that the NAACP was the Loving vs. Virginia case in 1967, that established the fundamental right of any individual, including members of the LGBT community to marry the person of their choice, free from discrimination.

Most recently they have taken apart in the United States v. Windsor urging the Court to strike the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) because it intentionally relegates gays and lesbians to inferior social status. They have also taken apart in the Hollingsworth v. Perry, the case challenging Proposition 8, the California’s state constitutional ban on same-sex marriage.

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