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work_sa5wjqdnarcrjlorsddnmymm7i	Thomas M. Keck	Beyond Backlash: Assessing the Impact of Judicial Decisions on LGBT Rights	2009	36	.pdf	application/pdf	15750	1001	60	A closer inspection of the actual sequence of victories and defeats for LGBT rights advocates in the United States, both in court judicial decision in Alaska, a federal statute declaring that the national government would not recognize SSMs and authorizing state Texas, followed several months later by the first decision from an American court to actually legalize SSM (Goodridge v. In sum, the litigation campaigns waged by LGBT rights advocates have regularly provoked both electoral and policy setbacks, while much has been made of the political reaction to judicial decisions expanding partnership rights, state officials have complied cases legalizing SSM or civil unions (CUs) in Vermont, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and California, as well as a number of state court the Colorado constitutional provision prohibiting such antidiscrimination protections, LGBT rights litigators enabled the state's New Jersey, California, and Connecticut, the state legislature voluntarily expanded partnership rights while the legal challenges	./cache/work_sa5wjqdnarcrjlorsddnmymm7i.pdf	./txt/work_sa5wjqdnarcrjlorsddnmymm7i.txt