Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2023-08-31 08:30:29.855007+00
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*174SHIRLEY S. ABRAHAMSON, C.J.
¶ 60. (concurring.) The majority opinion correctly notes that the instant case does not address any challenge to Article XIII, Section 13 of the Wisconsin Constitution. Majority op., ¶ 1, n.3.
¶ 61. Although I agree with the majority opinion that Chapter 770 does not violate Article XIII, Section 13, the restriction of marriage to opposite-sex couples provided in Article XIII, Section 13 has been challenged in Wisconsin courts as unconstitutional.
¶ 62. This court recently declined to accept an original action challenging the constitutionality of Article XIII, Section 13 under the United States Constitution.1 Recently, the federal district court for the Western District of Wisconsin declared Article XIII, Section 13, unconstitutional under the United States Constitution,2 in line with other recent judicial decisions.3
¶ 63. I write separately to call the reader's attention to these developments of the law.

 Halopka-Ivery v. Walker, 2014AP839-OA, slip op. (Wis. May 22, 2014) (denying the petition ex parte, with Abrahamson, C.J., and Bradley, J., dissenting).

 Wolf v. Walker, No. 14-CV-64-BBC, 986 F.Supp.2d 982, 2014 WL 2558444 (W.D. Wis. June 6, 2014).

 See, e.g., Bostic v. Rainey, 970 F. Supp. 2d. 456, 470 (E.D. Va. 2014); Bishop v. U.S. ex rel. Holder, 962 F. Supp. 2d 1252, 1277 (N.D. Okla. 2014); Kitchen v. Herbert, 961 F. Supp. 2d 1181, 1195 (D. Utah 2013).