McCrory & Clark v North Carolina

Case #: 1:2014cv00065
Date Filed: 10 March 2014
Ruling Date: 10 October 2014

Description:

• 15 October 2013, Buncombe County, NC Register of Deeds Drew Reisinger began accepting civil marriage license applications from same-gender couples, and when they applied for their fifth time, Brenda Clark and Carol McCrory became the first such couple in any southern state to be allowed to file an application.
• 10 March 2014, McCrory and Clark filed a federal lawsuit seeking recognition of their out-of-state marriage, and also seeking to broadly challenge both the NC constitutional amendment (Amendment 1) and the NC statute that ban marriage equality in NC.
• 10 October 2014, this case was dismissed as moot and judgement entered.