The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts_Supreme_Judicial_Court" id="mwAWo" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court">Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court</a> rules 4–3 in <i id="mwAWs"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodridge_v._Department_of_Public_Health" id="mwAWw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Goodridge v. Department of Public Health">Goodridge v. Department of Public Health</a></i> that the state's ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional and gives the state legislature 180<span about="#mwt133" class="nowrap" data-mw='{"parts":[{"template":{"target":{"wt":"nbsp","href":"./Template:Nbsp"},"params":{},"i":0}}]}' id="mwAW0" typeof="mw:Transclusion"><span typeof="mw:Entity"> </span></span>days to change the law making Massachusetts the first state in the United States to grant marriage rights to same-sex couples.