| Brenner v. Scott Grimsley v. Scott | |
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| Court | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida |
| Decided | August 21, 2014 |
| Citation | 999 F. Supp. 2d 1278 |
| Case history | |
| Prior actions | Northern District of Florida
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| Subsequent actions | U.S. Eleventh Circuit
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| Holding | |
| Florida's statutory and constitutional bans on same-sex marriage are unconstitutional as they violate the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses. | |
| Court membership | |
| Judges sitting | Robert L. Hinkle, U.S.D.J. |
In Brenner v. Scott and its companion case, Grimsley v. Scott, a U.S. district court found Florida's constitutional and statutory bans on same-sex marriage unconstitutional. On August 21, 2014, the court issued a preliminary injunction that prevented that state from enforcing its bans and then stayed its injunction until stays were lifted in the three same-sex marriage cases then petitioning for a writ of certiorari in the U.S. Supreme Court–Bostic, Bishop, and Kitchen–and for 91 days thereafter. When the district court's preliminary injunction took effect on January 6, 2015, enforcement of Florida's bans on same-sex marriage ended.
The state defendants appealed to the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, where it was styled Brenner v. Armstrong.