Massachusetts v. United States Department of Health and Human Services

Target entity: Massachusetts v. United States Department of Health and Human Services
Context triple: [Defense of Marriage Act, constitutionalChallenge, Massachusetts v. United States Department of Health and Human Services]

• A. Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts
  Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts is a 2009 U.S. Supreme Court decision holding that forensic laboratory reports are testimonial evidence and that defendants have a Sixth Amendment right to confront the analysts who prepared them.
• B. Memoirs v. Massachusetts
  Memoirs v. Massachusetts is a 1966 U.S. Supreme Court decision that refined the legal test for obscenity under the First Amendment, further protecting controversial literary works from censorship.
• C. NFIB v. Sebelius
  NFIB v. Sebelius is the landmark 2012 U.S. Supreme Court case that largely upheld the Affordable Care Act, notably ruling that its individual mandate could be sustained under Congress’s taxing power.
• D. King v. Burwell
  King v. Burwell is a landmark 2015 U.S. Supreme Court case that upheld the availability of federal tax credits for health insurance purchased on exchanges under the Affordable Care Act.
• E. McCullen v. Coakley
  McCullen v. Coakley is a 2014 U.S. Supreme Court case that struck down Massachusetts’ abortion-clinic buffer zone law as violating the First Amendment’s free speech protections.
• F. None of above. chosen
• G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Target entity: Massachusetts v. United States Department of Health and Human Services
Target entity description: Massachusetts v. United States Department of Health and Human Services is a landmark federal court case in which the District of Massachusetts struck down key provisions of the Defense of Marriage Act as unconstitutional for denying federal recognition and benefits to same-sex marriages recognized by the state.

• A. Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts
  Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts is a 2009 U.S. Supreme Court decision holding that forensic laboratory reports are testimonial evidence and that defendants have a Sixth Amendment right to confront the analysts who prepared them.
• B. Memoirs v. Massachusetts
  Memoirs v. Massachusetts is a 1966 U.S. Supreme Court decision that refined the legal test for obscenity under the First Amendment, further protecting controversial literary works from censorship.
• C. NFIB v. Sebelius
  NFIB v. Sebelius is the landmark 2012 U.S. Supreme Court case that largely upheld the Affordable Care Act, notably ruling that its individual mandate could be sustained under Congress’s taxing power.
• D. King v. Burwell
  King v. Burwell is a landmark 2015 U.S. Supreme Court case that upheld the availability of federal tax credits for health insurance purchased on exchanges under the Affordable Care Act.
• E. McCullen v. Coakley
  McCullen v. Coakley is a 2014 U.S. Supreme Court case that struck down Massachusetts’ abortion-clinic buffer zone law as violating the First Amendment’s free speech protections.
• F. None of above. chosen