A lawsuit challenging Virginia’s gay marriage and civil union bans may provide the vehicle for a final U.S. Supreme Court ruling on the constitutionality of same-sex marriage—at least that is the hope of the suit’s “dream team” of lawyers.

However, just as they faced skepticism about the timing of their challenge to California’s same-sex marriage ban, Theodore Olson of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and David Boies of Boies, Schiller & Flexner, are likely to provoke caution warnings despite and because of June 2012′s rulings by the justices in two gay marriage-related cases.

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