Pavan v. Smith

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Pavan v. Smith (2017)
the Supreme Court of the United States

In Pavan v. Smith, 582 U.S. __, 137 S. Ct. 2075 (2017), the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the 2016 decision of the Arkansas Supreme Court in Smith v. Pavan, 2016 Ark. 437, 505 S.W.3d 169.

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Supreme Court of the United States

582 U.S.   

MARISA N. PAVAN, ET AL.  v.  NATHANIEL SMITH

On Petition for Writ of Certiorari to the Supreme Court of Arkansas

No. 16-992. --- Decided June 26, 2017. 

Court Documents

2016 Ark. 437, 505 S.W.3d 169, reversed.


Opinion PER CURIAM.

JUSTICE GORSUCH, with whom JUSTICE THOMAS and JUSTICE ALITO join, dissenting.


Douglas Hallward-Driemeier for petitioners.

Nicholas J. Bronni, Deputy Solicitor General, for respondent, with Leslie Rutledge, Attorney General, on the brief.


*  Briefs were filed for amici curiae Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc., et al., by Stuart F. Delery; for Constitutional Accountability Center, by Brianne Jenna Gorod; for Family Equality Council and COLAGE, by Katherine Keating; and for Family Law Professors, by Claire Laporte.

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it is a work of the United States federal government (see 17 U.S.C. 105).

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