Among the many battles waged in New York’s courts in the LGBTQ community’s long march for equal treatment under the law was Hernandez v. Robles, in which the state Court of Appeals ruled in 2006 to uphold a prohibition on gay marriage.
Perhaps the community could chalk that one up as a setback. But the case unleashed a powerful voice: Chief Judge Judith Kaye, who wrote in her dissenting opinion that she was “confident that future generations will look back on today’s decision as an unfortunate misstep.”
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