Series of court filings from In re Balas & Morales, the California case in which twenty bankruptcy judges jointly signed an opinion striking down the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) as unconstitutional to the extent it barred lawfully married same-sex couples from filing joint bankruptcy petitions.

This is the Court's ruling denying the U.S. Trustee's motion to dismiss, on the ground that DOMA is unconstitutional. It is signed by twenty judges.