In the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, Timothy B. Bostic, et al., plaintiffs-appellees, v. George E. Schaefer, III, et al., defendants-appellants, and Michele B. McQuigg, intervenor-defendant-appellant : brief of the states of Indiana, Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Louisiana, Montana, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Utah and Wyoming as amici curiae in support of reversal /

On appeal to the federal Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, this is the brief of fourteen states as amici curiae arguing in support of the power of individual states to adhere to a "traditional" (id est, one man, one woman union) view of marriage.