In their op-ed for The National Law Journal, founding partner Roberta “Robbie” Kaplan and counsel Brandon Trice discuss the Supreme Court's decision to strike down DOMA ten years ago, recognizing the desire for marriage equality and anti-discrimination laws.
Kaplan Hecker & Fink’s commitment to bringing and winning cases that advance the public interest is part of our firm’s DNA, inspired by Robbie Kaplan and Julie Fink’s successful representation of Edie Windsor and Robbie’s winning argument at the Supreme Court in U.S. v. Windsor. Today, we celebrate the ten-year anniversary of that landmark ruling that paved the way for marriage equality in the United States. Then Harvard law professor and now Kaplan Hecker & Fink Of Counsel Larry Tribe has observed that he cannot “think of any Supreme Court decision in history that has ever created so rapid and broad a lower-court groundswell in a single direction as Windsor.” Unfortunately, these hard-fought rights are once again under attack. That’s why we have redoubled our efforts to fight for the equal dignity of the LGBTQ+ community, including our pending lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Florida’s notorious “Don’t Say Gay” law.
Join us in celebrating this landmark ruling, and persistently advocating for the advancement of LGBTQ+ rights.
Read the full op-ed here.