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Sevcik v. Sandoval
''Sevcik v. Sandoval'' is the lead case that successfully challenged the Nevada's denial of same-sex marriage as prohibited by that state's constitution and statutory law. The plaintiffs' complaint was initially filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada on April 10, 2012, on behalf of several couples denied marriage licenses. These couples challenged the denial on the basis of the U.S. Constitution's Fourteenth Amendment guarantee of equal protection.
On November 26, 2012, Chief District Judge Robert C. Jones ruled against the plaintiff same-sex couples, granting in part a motion to dismiss the complaint against the Nevada government officials named in it. The plaintiffs appealed to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on December 3, 2012.
A three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit heard oral arguments in ''Sevcik'' and two related cases, ''Jackson v. Abercrombie'' and ''Latta v. Otter'', on September 8, 2014. On October 7, the panel reversed the lower court's ruling in ''Sevcik'', remanding the case back to district court with direction to enter a judgment in favor of the plaintiffs. This effectively legalized same-sex marriage in Nevada. After at least one judge on Court of Appeals asked for a vote on the defendants' petition to have the case reheard by a larger, 11-judge panel, no majority of judges on the Ninth Circuit would agree; thus the rehearing was denied on January 9, 2015.
==Constitutional amendment==
(詳細はConstitution of Nevada was amended in 2002 to incorporate Article 1, Section 21, which reads: "Only a marriage between a male and female person shall be recognized and given effect in this state," restricting marriage to different-sex couples. Voters first approved a ballot question endorsing this amendment to that effect on November 7, 2000, with 70% of the vote. Its principal sponsor was the Coalition to Protect Marriage, a local organization. Because Nevada requires a constitutional amendment be approved by the voters twice, Nevada voters considered the same ballot question on November 5, 2002, and approved it by a margin of 67%–33%.〔
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