Same-sex marriage in Kansas has been legal since November 12, 2014, when the United States Supreme Court denied the state's request for a stay pending appeal of ruling in the case Marie v. Moser. The rulings of the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals that found Oklahoma's and Utah's bans on same-sex marriage unconstitutional became binding precedent on federal courts in Kansas on October 6, 2014, when the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal in those cases. On October 8, a judge in northeast Kansas ordered his county to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, and on October 10 the state's highest court, at the request of the state Attorney General, issued a temporary injunction to stop the practice while allowing same-sex couples to file applications for marriage licenses.