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No.
 In the Supreme Court of the United States
U
NITED
S
TATES
D
EPARTMENT OF
H
EALTH AND
H
UMAN
S
ERVICES
,
ET AL
.,
PETITIONERS
v.
C
OMMONWEALTH OF
M
 ASSACHUSETTS
O
FFICE OF
P
ERSONNEL
M
 ANAGEMENT
,
ET AL
.,
PETITIONERS
v.
N
 ANCY 
G
ILL
,
ET AL
.
ON PETITION FOR A WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIRST CIRCUIT 
PETITION FOR A WRIT OF CERTIORARI
D
ONALD
B.
 
 V 
ERRILLI
,
 
J
R
.
 Solicitor GeneralCounsel of Record
S
TUART
F.
 
D
ELERY 
 Acting Assistant AttorneyGeneral
S
RI
S
RINIVASAN
 Deputy Solicitor General
L
EONDRA 
R.
 
K
RUGER
P
RATIK
 A.
 
S
HAH
 Assistants to the Solicitor General
M
ICHAEL
J
 AY 
S
INGER
 A 
UGUST
E.
 
F
LENTJE
B
ENJAMIN
S.
 
K
INGSLEY 
 Attorneys Department of JusticeWashington, D.C. 20530-0001 SupremeCtBriefs@usdoj.gov(202) 514-2217 
12-15 EQCF Dkt #1 Filed 07/03/2012
 
QUESTION PRESENTED
Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA)defines the term “marriage” for all purposes underfederal law, including the provision of federal benefits,as “only a legal union between one man and one womanas husband and wife.” 1 U.S.C. 7. It similarly definesthe term “spouse” as “a person of the opposite sex whois a husband or a wife.”
 Ibid.
The question presented is: Whether Section 3 of DOMA violates the Fifth Amendment’s guarantee of equal protection of the lawsas applied to persons of the same sex who are legallymarried under the laws of their State. 
(I)
 
PARTIES TO THE PROCEEDING
Petitioners are the United States Department of Health and Human Services; Kathleen Sebelius, Secre-tary of Health and Human Services; the United StatesDepartment of Veterans Affairs; Eric K. Shinseki, Sec-retary of Veterans Affairs; the Office of Personnel Man-agement; the United States Postal Service; Patrick R.Donahoe, Postmaster General of the United States of  America; Michael J. Astrue, Commissioner of SocialSecurity; Eric H. Holder, Jr., Attorney General; and theUnited States of America.Respondents who were plaintiffs below are the Com-monwealth of Massachusetts, Nancy Gill, Marcelle Le-tourneau, Martin Koski, James Fitzgerald, Dean Hara,Mary Ritchie, Kathleen Bush, Melba Abreu, BeatriceHernandez, Marlin Nabors, Jonathan Knight, MaryBowe-Shulman, Dorene Bowe-Shulman, Jo Ann White-head, Bette Jo Green, Randell Lewis-Kendell, and Her-bert Burtis.The Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group of the UnitedStates House of Representatives intervened in the courtof appeals to present arguments in defense of the consti-tutionality of Section 3 of DOMA.
(II)
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