6 October: The United States Supreme Court allowed appeals court docket selections placing down identical-intercourse marriage bans in Virginia, Indiana, Wisconsin, Oklahoma, and Utah to stand, allowing similar-sex couples to begin marrying instantly in those five states and creating binding authorized precedent that has nullified bans in six other states within the Fourth, Seventh, and Tenth Circuits (Colorado, Kansas, North Carolina, South Carolina, West Virginia, and Wyoming). His determination takes impact on 20 November, and identical-intercourse marriages start in South Carolina. 12 November: U.S. District Judge Richard Gergel guidelines in Condon v. Haley that South Carolina's ban on same-intercourse marriage is unconstitutional. 10 October: U.S. District Judge Max Cogburn, ruling generally Synod of the United Church of Christ v. Cooper, struck down North Carolina's ban, citing the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in Bostic v. Schaefer. 12 October: District Court Judge Timothy Burgess strikes down the ban on identical-sex marriage in Alaska, with rapid impact, making identical-sex marriage legal in Alaska.
