Nebraska Supreme Court to Hear Oral Arguments in Same-Sex Divorce Lawsuit
PRESS RELEASE: The case will decide whether Nebraska courts can grant divorce or dissolution in a same-sex “marriage” lawfully entered into in another state, as the Nebraska State Constitution states, “Only marriage between a man and a woman shall be valid or recognized in Nebraska.”
Bonnie Nichols and her same-sex partner, Margie Nichols, residents of Nebraska, were married in Iowa in 2009, several months after that state legalized same-sex marriage.
In 2012 Bonnie Nichols filed for a divorce in Nebraska. In 2013, a judge sustained defendant Margie Nichols’ Motion to Dismiss, because a divorce cannot be granted without recognizing the marriage itself, something Nebraska’s constitution prohibits.
Watch oral arguments LIVE online on Wednesday, May 28, 2014, at 9 a.m. (Central) here: http://www.netnebraska.org/basic-page/television/live-demand-state-government
Read the Thomas More Society Omaha’s amicus brief here: https://www.thomasmoresociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/140509-Nichols-Amicus-Brief-of-The-Thomas-More-Society.pdf
“Lesbian” wedding mock-cake at the Roma Gay Pride in 2008. Picture by Stefano Bolognini via wikimedia commons.
