Wis. Gay Couples: Refund Marriage License Application Fee

Jason St. Amand READ TIME: 1 MIN.

Some same-sex couples who applied for a marriage license in Outagamie County want a refund of the application fee now that a federal judge has made an initial ruling on a legal challenge of Wisconsin's ban on gay unions.

WLUK-TV reports Arti and Josh Alan are among 26 couples who paid the $100 application fee but had to wait five days in Outagamie County before getting married. Many other counties waived the waiting period, allowing more than 500 same-sex couples to marry.

The clerk's office told about 6 couples Monday that only the state's portion of the fee, or $55, would be refunded.

U.S. District Judge Barbara Crabb on June 6 ordered county clerks to stop enforcing the state's gay marriage ban, but she put that ruling on hold Friday while an appeal from Wisconsin's Republican attorney general is pending.


by Jason St. Amand , National News Editor

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