9 October: The Attorney General of West Virginia introduced that in mild of the Supreme Court declining to evaluation the Fourth Circuit ruling, he considers identical-intercourse marriage authorized in West Virginia, and he will stop defending the state's legislation banning similar-sex marriage. The Governor of West Virginia issued an analogous assertion and ordered all state agencies to conform. 6 October: The United States Supreme Court allowed appeals courtroom selections hanging down same-sex marriage bans in Virginia, Indiana, Wisconsin, Oklahoma, and Utah to face, allowing same-sex couples to start marrying instantly in these 5 states and creating binding legal precedent that has nullified bans in six other states in the Fourth, Seventh, and Tenth Circuits (Colorado, Kansas, North Carolina, South Carolina, West Virginia, and Wyoming). 10 October: U.S. District Judge Max Cogburn, ruling usually 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. 4 September: The United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit found the Indiana and Wisconsin ban on identical-intercourse marriage unconstitutional.
