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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