• Civil marriage equality cannot legally be denied at the state level, via the Supreme Court of the United States, as of 26 June 2015. (Same-sex couples have the legal right to marry.)
• On 26 June 2015, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) ruled FOR marriage equality and that same-gender couples have the constitutional right to marry in all 50 states and all U.S. territories.
• 9 July 2015, Opinion: Judges Can't Refuse to Perform Same-Sex Marriages - From NBC Nebraska
• MARRIAGE EQUALITY FAQ
• If a marriage license is refused to you, please contact one of the following legal organizations immediately!
  
  ACLU
  https://www.aclu.org/about/affiliates?redirect=affiliates
  212.549.2500 

  GLAD
  http://www.GLADAnswers.org/
  617.426.1350

  Lambda Legal
  http://www.lambdalegal.org/marriage-equality-tracker
  212.809.8585

  NCLR
  http://www.nclrights.org/legal-help
  415.392.6257

HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE

• A state constitutional ban on marriage equality and civil unions was established in 2000, per Initiative Measure 416. Recognition of same-sex relationships "by any other name" was also prohibited.
• A federal court challenge to the ban, Citizens for Equal Protection v. Bruning, won in the U.S. District Court in 2005, but lost in the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals in 2006. Opponents of the constitutional amendment did not seek review of the decision by SCOTUS.
• Nebraska extended hospital visitation rights to same-sex couples through a "designated visitor" statute.
• 28 January 2014, Sarpy County commissioners decided to extend health insurance benefits to spouses of gay county employees who legally married in another state but live in Nebraska.
• August 2014, Sue Stroesser was denied a Nebraska driver's license because her previous license was under her maiden name and her name changed when she married her wife in Iowa. Nebraska didn't recognize that marriage.
• 12 November 2014, Nebraska's incoming Attorney General (8 January 2015) planned to defend the state ban on marriage equality and believed he could so so successfully. 
• 2 March 2015, in the Waters marriage case (see under LAWSUITS-PENDING below), Senior Federal Judge Joseph Bataillon ruled that the NE state ban on marriage equality was unconstitutional!
• 4 March 2015, One Couple’s Story of Why We Need Marriage Equality in Nebraska and Nationwide - MEUSA News Blog
• On 5 March 2015, Bataillon's ruling was stayed pending appeal.
• 29 April 2015, the Court, of its own accord, put the 8th Circuit oral arguments and all further proceedings on hold until SCOTUS ruled in the marriage cases.
• SCOTUS ruled in favor of marriage equality on 26 June 2015.