The Colorado Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered Boulder County Clerk Hillary Hall to stop issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples after more than a month of doing so. In that time, at least 199 licenses were issued to gay or lesbian couples.
Colorado Attorney General has spent weeks attempting to stop Hall from issuing licenses through his own directives and lower state courts, to no avail.
The Boulder County Clerk began issuing same-sex marriage licenses on June 25, when the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals struck down Utah’s ban on same-sex couples’ marriages as being unconstitutional.
As the state of Colorado is also under jurisdiction of the 10th Circuit Court, Hall began issuing licenses that day, after consulting her county attorney.
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