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FISHER-BORNE v. SMITH

Nos. 1:12CV589, 1:14CV299.

14 F.Supp.3d 695 (2014)

Marcie FISHER-BORNE, for herself and as guardian ad litem for M.F.-B., a minor, et al., Plaintiffs, v. John W. SMITH, in his official capacity as the Director of the North Carolina Administrative Office of the Courts, et al., Defendants. Ellen W. Gerber, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Roy Cooper, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, M.D. North Carolina.

Signed October 14, 2014.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Amy E. Richardson , Wiltshire & Grannis LLP, Jonathan Drew Sasser , Jeremy M. Falcone , Ellis & Winters, LLP, Raleigh, NC, Catherine M. Bradley , Daniel W. Meyler , David A. Castleman , Garrard R. Beeney , William R.A. Kleysteuber , Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, James D. Esseks , Rose A. Saxe , American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, New York, NY, Christopher A. Brook , American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina, Raleigh, NC, Elizabeth O. Gill , American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, San Francisco, CA, for Plaintiffs.

Charles Gibson Whitehead , Olga E. Vysotskaya De Brito , North Carolina Department of Justice, Raleigh, NC, John Mark Payne , Greensboro, NC, David Wallace Hood , Michael J. Barnett , Patrick Harper & Dixon, LLP, Hickory, NC, for Defendants.

ORDER

WILLIAM L. OSTEEN, JR., District Judge.

Plaintiffs in each of these cases have filed complaints alleging causes of action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 challenging the constitutionality of North Carolina's laws preventing same-sex couples from marrying and prohibiting recognition of same-sex couples' lawful out-of-state marriages. (1:12CV589 (Doc. 40); 1:14CV299 (Doc. 1).) As to each of these cases, an order was entered dismissing the North...

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