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Levinson, Steven H.

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Justice Steven H. Levinson papers on same-sex marriage in Hawaiʻi

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Identifier: MANUSCRIPT-M00071
Collection Abstract Steven H. Levinson had a long legal career in Hawaiʻi, including a (nearly) 17-year stint as an Associate Justice of the Hawaiʻi Supreme Court from April 1992- December 2008. In 1993, Levinson wrote the opinion in the State Supreme Court case Baehr v. Lewin (later Baehr v. Miike), which opened the path for the ultimate legalization of same sex marriage in the state twenty years later, in 2013. After his judicial career, Levinson served as a...
Dates: 1984 - 2014; Majority of material found within 1992 - 1998