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.
