Gov. Scott Walker and Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen have appealed the ruling made by a federal judge in June that struck down Wisconsin’s ban on gay marriage.
The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals based in Chicago will consider the case. That court is notably already considering Indiana’s same-sex marriage ban, after that state appealed a similar ruling striking it down.
A stay on the ruling in Wisconsin means that, for now, same-sex couples cannot get married. The more-than 500 couples who got married before that stay remain in murky legal territory.
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Read the notice of appeal filed by Walker and Van Hollen here.
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