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Falcis Case: Marriage Equality Analysis by Marianne Hope Villas is a document available to read on EtoBox.
This document summarizes a Philippine Supreme Court case, Falcis III v. Civil Registrar General, which dismissed a petition to declare the definition of marriage under Philippine law unconstitutional for discriminating against LGBTQ individuals. The author argues that the Supreme Court should have found the definition of marriage in the Family Code unconstitutional based on due process jurisprudence. The author then proposes a framework, based on John Hart Ely
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- Marianne Hope Villas
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- EN