Ballen v. Corbett

Ballen v. Corbett is a 2013 Pennsylvania court case. 21 same-sex couples who were issued marriage licenses by Montgomery County Clerk D. Bruce Hanes filed a petition for review to have their marriage licenses declared valid and recognized.

The 21 couples had previously sought to intervene in Commonwealth v. Hanes, but the judge in that case decided that since the constitutionality of the marriage statute could not be raised by Clerk Hanes as a defense in defying the marriage law as written, their intervention would have had no effect.

Timeline

 * 2013-09-25: