In re Marriage Cases (2008) 43 Cal.4th 757 [76 Cal.Rptr.3d 683, 183 P.3d 384], is a California Supreme Court case holding "that the California legislative and initiative measures limiting marriage to opposite-sex couples violate the state constitutional rights of same-sex couples and may not be used to preclude same-sex couples from marrying." The Supreme Court of California joins the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts as only the second state to have its highest court rule prohibitions on same-sex marriage unconstitutional, although for somewhat different reasons.