On Monday, Sept. 29, the Supreme Court will consider seven cases challenging state-level gay marriage bans: three from Virginia, and one each from Oklahoma, Utah, Indiana, and Wisconsin. The court could decide to hear every case, or none at all—or it could pick a single one to review. Each case would come with its own procedural hitches and substantive flaws; if the court picks the wrong case, it may wind up waiting another year before settling the marriage question once and for all. Below, we’ve outlined all the perks and flaws of the current batch of cases. These contenders are competing to make civil-rights immortality.
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