Chief Justice Mark Cady, who wrote the opinion affirming right to same-sex marriage in Iowa, dies at

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Chief Justice Mark Cady, who wrote the opinion affirming right to same-sex marriage in Iowa, dies at 66

https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/crime-and-courts/2019/11/15/mark-cady-iowa-supreme-court-dies-gay-marriage-varnum-v-brien-opinion-author-2009-chief-justice/4209815002/?for-guid=d99c531f-ba59-4ae6-9d07-85b05dfeee97&utm_source=desmoinesregister-Daily%20Briefing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily_briefing&utm_term=hero

Mark Cady, chief justice of Iowa's Supreme Court since 2011, died Friday, judicial branch officials confirmed. He was 66.

“Tonight, the state lost a great man, husband, father, grandfather, and jurist," Cady's family wrote in a Friday evening news release from the Judicial Branch. "Chief Justice Mark Cady passed away unexpectedly this evening from a heart attack. Arrangements are pending."

He wrote the unanimous opinion for the court in 2009 that made Iowa the third state to permit same-sex marriages.

Michael Gartner, the Iowa Cubs owner and former Des Moines Register editor who often writes about the court for Cityview, said Cady was a neighbor and a friend he saw several times a week.

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1. There was this on his memorial service

From KCRG

Iowans gathered Wednesday to celebrate the life of Supreme Court Chief Justice Mark Cady.
A men's choir performs at a public memorial service for the late Iowa Supreme Court Chief Justice Mark Cady on Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2019 (KCCI)

Cady died unexpectedly Friday at age 66.

He has been with the Iowa Supreme Court since 1998 and was appointed Chief Justice in 2011.

One decade ago, Cady wrote the unanimous opinion making same-sex marriage legal in Iowa. Last year, Cady led a 5-2 majority decision striking down a 72-hour waiting period for abortions.

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2. I imagine somewhere that asshole Bob Vander Plaats is dancing

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3. I was kind of surprised KCRG was able to resist the siren call

...of that horse’s back end and not ask him what he thought.