Lavi Soloway (right) with his client, Anthony Sullivan (photo by David W. Ross)
The federal government’s recognition of their 1975 marriage is groundbreaking because it affirms that the constitutional protection of the right to marry extends to a marriage entered into by a same-sex couple that took place decades ago. This outcome is an example of the potentially far reaching ripple effects of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2015 landmark marriage equality decision in Obergefell v Hodges.
— Lavi Soloway, a noted immigration and LGBT rights lawyer, commenting on how the Board of Immigration Appeals and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services recently recognized as valid the 1975 marriage of two gay men, Richard Adams and Anthony Sullivan. This resulted in the agency’s approval of a green card petition filed by Adams 41 years ago on behalf of Sullivan, an Australian citizen (and Soloway’s client). You can read more about the case here.
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David Lat is the founder and managing editor of Above the Law and the author of Supreme Ambitions: A Novel. You can connect with David on Twitter (@DavidLat), LinkedIn, and Facebook, and you can reach him by email at [email protected].