The significance of Jody Scheske and Jason Steed’s remarkable victory before the Texas Supreme Court was quickly overshadowed by a ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court.

But they can still lay claim to being the first appellate lawyers to successfully defend before Texas’ highest court a same-sex couple’s right to get divorced—seven days before the rest of the state’s LGBT population would win the right to be married from the nation’s highest court.

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