Windsor V. United States

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Windsor v. United States is a lawsuit filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. The plaintiff in the suit challenges the constitutionality of section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act which defines the terms "marriage" as "a legal union between one man and one woman as husband and wife" and "spouse" as "a person of the opposite sex who is a husband or a wife. "The law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, in conjunction with the American Civil Liberties Union filed Windsor v. United States in District Court in New York on behalf of Edith S. Windsor, the widow of Thea C. Spyer.