Associate Dean Amar Comments on Supreme Court Same-Sex Marriage Ruling
Vikram Amar, Associate Dean and Professor of Law at UC Davis School of Law, commented for the San Francisco Chronicle on the U.S. Supreme Court's refusal to issue a stay of a federal judge's ruling giving same-sex couples the right to marry in Alabama. Amar said the Court's position was telegraphed last fall when the Justices denied review to five rulings legalizing same-sex weddings in 11 states.
"It seems to me the Court is pretty strongly inclined to rule in favor of same-sex marriage proponents," Amar said. "If not, they would have to deal with all these marriages" that were legalized by the rulings they had left intact.
Vikram Amar, Associate Dean of Academic Affairs and Professor of Law with the UC Davis School of Law, is a national authority in the fields of constitutional law, civil procedure, criminal procedure, and remedies. His biweekly column for Justia.com, a leading provider of online legal information, centers on his expertise in constitutional law.