A federal judge denied the state’s request to freeze a decision regarding Wisconsin’s gay marriage ban.
U.S. District Court Judge Barbara Crabb denied the state’s request Monday to stay a decision in a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union. The state, led by Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen, had asked the judge to hold further action on the case until the Wisconsin Supreme Court issues a ruling in another gay marriage case, the Wisconsin State Journal reports.
The ACLU filed the lawsuit in February on behalf of four Wisconsin same-sex couples. The organization has since added four more couples to the list of plaintiffs.
Crabb wrote in the court order that to issue the stay “would serve no purpose but to delay the case.”
State attorneys had hoped to halt action on the case until the state Supreme Court rendered a decision in a case concerning the constitutionality of Wisconsin’s domestic partnership policy.
