Attorneys who watched the tornado of legal arguments surrounding the state’s first legal same-sex marriage said that the newlyweds’ counsel “beautifully” executed a creative legal strategy to help their clients tie the knot.
Austin lawyer Chuck Herring, partner in Herring & Irwin, handled the case pro bono for his longtime friends and a 30-year couple, Suzanne Bryant and Sarah Goodfriend. After a local judge declared the state’s same-sex marriage ban unconstitutional in a probate case, the women sued the Travis County clerk, and a judge issued a temporary restraining order forcing the clerk to issue the women a marriage license. They were married 38 minutes later, and dropped their lawsuit three hours after they filed it.
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