Tenth Circuit Court Lifts Oklahoma Stay

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A gay couple sued a county clerk in Oklahoma for failing to issue them a marriage license shortly after state voters approved a ban on same-sex marriage in 2004, the Associated Press reports. A federal judge overturned the ban last December. The Oklahoma couple plans to wed Monday in Tulsa, according to the Associated Press. The Cleveland County Court office is waiting for the district attorney to give them approval to issue same-sex couples marriage licenses, said Larry Bierman, a deputy at the office. Bierman said he didn’t know how long it would take to get the district attorney’s approval. While marriage licenses had previously designated gender, Bierman said marriage licenses at the Cleveland County Court office and throughout Oklahoma—as of about month ago—designate only two applicants, regardless of gender. This means the office will not have to change their marriage licenses and can begin issuing them to same-sex couples as soon as they’re given approval by the district attorney.

That makes the sixth state today to comply with the decision by SCOTUS. Five to go: North Carolina, South Carolina, Kansas, West Virginia, and Wyoming.