What is Obergefell v. Hodges?
{{italictitle}} {{Infobox SCOTUS case |Litigants=Obergefell v. Hodges |ArgueDate=April 28 |ArgueYear=2015 |DecideDate=June 26 |DecideYear=2015 |FullName=James Obergefell, et al., Petitioners v. [[Richard Hodges (politician)|Richard Hodges]], Director, [[Ohio Department of Health]], et al. |USVol=576 |USPage=___ |ParallelCitations=135 S. Ct. 2584; 192 L. Ed. 2d 609; 83 U.S.L.W. 4592; 25 Fla. L. Weekly Fed. S 472; 2015 WL 2473451; 2015 U.S. LEXIS 4250; 2015 BL 204553 |Docket=14-556 |OralArgument=http://www.oyez.org/cases/2010-2019/2014/2014_14_556/argument-1 |OpinionAnnouncement=http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/14pdf/14-556_3204.pdf |Related=''[[Bourke v. Beshear]]'', ''[[DeBoer v. Snyder]]'', ''[[Tanco v. Haslam]]'', ''[[Love v. Beshear]]''. |Prior= |Subsequent= |Holding=The Fourteenth Amendment requires a State to license a marriage between two people of the same sex and to recognize a marriage between two people of the same sex when their marriage was lawfully licensed and performed out-of-State. [[United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit]] reversed. ''[[Baker v. Nelson]]'' overturned. |SCOTUS=2010–2016 |Majority=Kennedy |JoinMajority=Ginsburg, Breyer, Sotomayor, Kagan |Dissent=Roberts |JoinDissent=Scalia, Thomas |Dissent2=Scalia |JoinDissent2=Thomas |Dissent3=Thomas |JoinDissent3=Scalia |Dissent4=Alito |JoinDissent4=Scalia, Thomas |LawsApplied=[[Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution|U.S. Const. amend. XIV]] |Overturned previous case= ''[[Baker v. Nelson]]'' (1972)<ref>''Obergefell v. Hodges'', No. 14-556, [http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/14pdf/14-556_3204.pdf slip op.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150626145937/http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/14pdf/14-556_3204.pdf |date=2015-06-26 }} at 23 (U.S. June 26, 2015).</ref> }} '''''Obergefell v. Hodges''''' was a [[landmark decision]] [[Supreme Court of the United States|United States Supreme Court]] case. The Court held that the [[wikt:recognition|rec