The Corbett administration and the dozen couples challenging the state’s ban on same-sex marriage have agreed to forgo trial, instead asking the judge to decide the case on the briefs, a move that shifts the focus to legal, rather than factual, arguments.
U.S. District Judge John E. Jones III of the Middle District of Pennsylvania, who is handling the case, had set a June trial date for the case seeking to tear down the state’s version of the federal Defense of Marriage Act, often called “mini-DOMA.”
