NAGOYA, Mar 07 (News On Japan) –
The Nagoya High Court has dominated that Japan’s ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional, upholding a decrease courtroom resolution in a case filed by a same-sex couple from Aichi Prefecture.
The plaintiffs, a pair of their 30s, argued that denying them the proper to marry violates the Constitution and sought damages from the federal government.
In May 2022, the Nagoya District Court discovered that stopping same-sex {couples} from accessing the authorized rights and advantages of marriage lacked affordable justification, declaring the present authorized framework unconstitutional.
In right this moment’s enchantment ruling, Presiding Judge Nobuhiro Katada of the Nagoya High Court reaffirmed that stopping same-sex {couples} from coming into authorized marriage constitutes illegal discrimination. However, the courtroom dismissed the couple’s declare for damages.
This marks the fourth excessive courtroom ruling in Japan to seek out the ban on same-sex marriage unconstitutional.
Source: TBS