In January 2023, the Delhi High Court transferred all these instances to the Supreme Court of India. The State Marriage Defense Act, launched within the House of Representatives on January 9, 2014, would require the federal government to acknowledge the validity of a marriage based on a person's authorized residence (place of domicile), relatively than on the validity of the wedding when and where it was solemnized (place of celebration). In 1996, the United States Congress handed and President Bill Clinton signed Public Law 104-199, the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). In response to courtroom motion in a number of states, the United States federal government and a lot of state legislatures handed or tried to move legislation either prohibiting or allowing similar-sex marriage or other types of identical-sex unions. In Obergefell v. Hodges, the Supreme Court was asked to find out the constitutionality of state bans on identical-intercourse marriage licenses as well as state bans on recognition of same-intercourse marriages from other states. On June 26, 2015, the Supreme Court of the United States dominated in the case of Obergefell v. Hodges that a fundamental proper to marry is guaranteed to similar-sex couples by the Fourteenth Amendment, and that states must allow same-sex marriage.
