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In ''Brenner v. Scott'' and its companion case, ''Grimsley v. Scott'', a U.S. district court found Florida's constitutional and statutory same-sex marriage bans unconstitutional. On August 21, 2014, the court issued a preliminary injunction that prevents that state from enforcing its bans and then stayed its injunction until stays are lifted in the three same-sex marriage cases then petitioning for a writ of certiorari in the U.S. Supreme Court–''Bostic'', ''Bishop'', and ''Kitchen''–and for 91 days thereafter. When the district court's preliminary injunction took effect on January 6, 2015, enforcement of Florida's bans on same-sex marriage ended. The state defendants appealed to the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, where it was styled ''Brenner v. Armstrong''. ==District court proceedings== Civil rights attorneys Bill Sheppard ((Sheppard, White, Kachergus, & DeMaggio P.A )) and Sam Jacobson ((Bledsoe, Jacobson, Schmidt, Wright, & Wilkinson )) filed ''Brenner v. Scott'' on behalf of a Leon County, Florida, same-sex couple seeking to have their Canadian marriage recognized by the state. Both plaintiffs in this case are state employees; James Brenner works for the state forest service and Charles Jones works in the state department of education. They complained of being unable to designate each other as a spouse in the state retirement benefits program because of Florida's nonrecognition of and refusal to license same-sex marriage. A second couple (Steven Schlairet & Ozzie Russ) were added to the Brenner suit on March 16, 2014. Steven is a retired hospital administrator, and Ozzie manages a local fast food restaurant. This couple sought to obtain a marriage license from the Washington County Court House, in Chipley, Florida. As a result of the Clerk of Courts' refusal to issue the marriage license to this couple, they joined the Brenner lawsuit. Civil rights attorneys and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed ''Grimsley v. Scott'' on behalf of South Florida-based LGBT-advocacy group SAVE and eight same-sex couples seeking recognition of their marriages legally established in other jurisdictions. Both cases were filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida and assigned to U.S. District Judge Robert Lewis Hinkle. ''Brenner'' was initially filed on February 28, 2014, and ''Grimsley'' on March 13, 2014. Each case names Florida Governor Rick Scott as the lead defendant. On April 21, 2014, Judge Hinkle ordered the ''Brenner'' and ''Grimsley'' cases consolidated for case-management purposes, though they remain separate on the docket. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Brenner v. Scott」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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