Arizona pays $200K in same-sex marriage lawsuit, could face more

Source: Arizona Republic

U.S. District Court Judge John Sedwick has ordered Arizona to pay $200,000 in legal fees in one of the two cases that challenged the state's ban on same-sex couples marrying.

And the costs for Arizona to defend its law defining marriage as between only a man and a woman could get much, much higher.

The order came in the Connolly vs. Roche case, which attorney Shawn Aiken filed in January 2014 on behalf of several individuals and couples, including Joe Connolly and his husband Terry Pochert.

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