Opinion
2004-10100.
September 26, 2006.
In a proceeding, inter alia, pursuant to CPLR article 78 in the nature of mandamus to compel the respondent Charlotte Madigan, Town Clerk of the Town of Orangetown, to issue marriage licenses to the petitioners, the petitioners appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Rockland County (Weiner, J.), dated October 18, 2004, which denied the petition and dismissed the proceeding.
McLaughlin Stern, LLP, New York, N.Y. (Steven J. Hyman and Alan E. Sash of counsel), Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale Dorr, LLP, New York, N.Y. (Paul A. Engelmayer, Verity Winship, Robert G. Sweeney, Janet Carter, and Stuart F. Delery [Washington, D.C.] of counsel), Norman Siegel, New York, N.Y., and Dobrish Wrubel, LLP, New York, N.Y. (Eric Wrubel of counsel), for appellants (one brief filed).
Teresa M. Kenny, Town Attorney, Orangeburg, N.Y. (Dennis D. Michaels of counsel), for respondent Charlotte Madigan.
Eliot Spitzer, Attorney-General, Albany, N.Y. (Peter H. Schiff, Andrea Oser, and Julie M. Sheridan of counsel), for respondent New York State Department of Health.
Whiteman Osterman Hanna, LLP, Albany, N.Y. (Michael Whiteman and Heather D. Diddel of counsel), Jenner Block, LLP, Washington, D.C. (William M. Hohengarten and Paul M. Smith of counsel), American Psychological Association, Washington, D.C. (Nathalie F. P. Gilfoyle of counsel), amicus curiae pro se and for amici curiae National Association of Social Workers, National Association of Social Workers New York City Chapter, and National Association of Social Workers New York State Chapter, and National Association of Social Workers, Washington, D.C. (Carolyn I. Polowy and Sherri Morgan of counsel), amicus curiae pro se and for amici curiae American Psychological Association, National Association of Social Workers New York City Chapter, and National Association of Social Workers New York State Chapter (one brief filed).
Debevoise Plimpton, LLP, New York, N.Y. (Kristin D. Kiehn, Troy A. McKenzie, Eliza Sporn, Rebecca G. Deutsch, Timothy M. Bogen, and Jennifer E. Spain of counsel), for Parents, Families Friends of Lesbians and Gays, Inc., Family Pride Coalition, Human Rights Campaign, Human Rights Campaign Foundation, and New York City Gay Lesbian Anti-Violence Project, amici curiae.
Cravath, Swaine Moore, LLP, New York, N.Y. (Gary A. Bornstein of counsel), and Empire State Pride Agenda, Albany, N.Y. (Ross D. Levi of counsel), amicus curiae pro se, and for amici curiae Bronx Lesbian and Gay Resource Consortium, Capital District Gay and Lesbian Community Counsel, Gay and Lesbian Youth Services of Western New York, Inc., Gay Alliance of the Genesee Valley, Gay Men of African Descent, Gay Men's Health Crisis, Inc., In Our Own Voices, The Institute for Human Identity, Inc., Lesbian and Gay Family Building Project, The LOFT: the Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center, Inc., Long Island Crisis Center, Long Island Gay and Lesbian Youth, Inc., Pride Center of Western New York, Inc., Rainbow Heights Club and SAGE/Upstate (one brief filed).
Association of Bar of City of New York, New York, N.Y. (Jay Weiser, Kate Webber, Robert H. Cohen, Kristin Bebelaar, and Alvan L. Bobrow of counsel), amicus curiae pro se, American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers — New York Chapter, Albany, N.Y. (Bruce J. Wagner of counsel), amicus curiae pro se, and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Law Association of Greater New York, New York, N.Y. (Tara Rice of counsel), amicus curiae pro se (one brief filed).
Simpson Thacher Bartlett, LLP, New York, N.Y. (Joseph F. Tringali, Robert J. Pfister, and Paul A. Saso of counsel), for amici curiae Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund, Asian Equality, Equality Federation, National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium, National Center For Lesbian Rights, National Gay Lesbian Task Force, People For The American Way Foundation, and the Vermont Freedom To Marry Task Force.
New York County Lawyers' Association, New York, N.Y. (Norman L. Reimer, Ivan J. Dominguez, and Jean M. Swieca of counsel), amicus curiae pro se and National Black Justice Coalition, Washington, D.C., amicus curiae pro se (one brief filed).
Willkie Farr Gallagher, LLP, New York, N.Y. (Martin Klotz, Yuriko Tada, and Suzanne C. Hess of counsel), for amicus curiae Women's Bar Association of State of New York, National Organization for Women-New York State, and Pace Women's Justice Center (one brief filed).
Richard E. Barnes, Albany, N.Y. (Paul Benjamin Linton of counsel), for amicus curiae New York State Catholic Conference. Alliance Defense Fund (Byron Babione, Benjamin W. Bull, Glen Lavy, Randall Wenger, and Dale Schowengerdt of counsel), for amicus curiae Family Research Council.
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver Jacobson, LLP, New York, N.Y. (Bonnie Steingart, Jonathan F. Lewis, Jennifer L. Colyer, and Edward J. Jacobs of counsel), for remaining amici curiae.
Before: Ritter, J.P., Rivera, Lunn and Covello, JJ.
Ordered that the judgment is affirmed, with costs, for the reasons stated in Hernandez v. Robles ( 7 NY3d 338).