Although the U.S. Supreme Court gets all of the credit, as a matter of law, a San Antonio lawyer and his colleagues planned a hit job and dealt the death blow to the Texas same-sex marriage ban back in February 2014.
Neel Lane, partner in Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, explained that his colleague, Frank Stenger, came up with the idea to challenge the Texas ban after the U.S. Supreme Court decided United States v. Windsor, which struck down parts of the federal Defense of Marriage Act.
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