I started writing this as a C&J comment but it seems long enough to form its own diary.
Mobile County Alabama Probate Judge Don Davis is trying to get all of the current federal marriage equality cases affecting the state (and not so incidentally, him both as regards his position AND personally) placed on hold pending the Supreme Court's eventual June ruling on the Sixth Circuit cases. Plaintiffs in one of those cases, Strawser vs Strange, who remarkably initially won a favorable ruling in their own case even though they represented themselves (they were simply too poor to afford counsel) are now being represented by the National Center for Lesbian Rights (disclaimer: I have several friends who work for NCLR). Counsel has now filed a brief opposing Davis's request that is rather monumental in destroying all of Davis's arguments while simultaneously, if only indirectly, schooling the Alabama Supreme Court. One of Davis's problems is that the federal court has issued a (non-stayed even by the US Supreme Court) decision enjoining him from enforcing Alabama's ban on marriage equality while the state Supreme Court has issued a ruling requiring him and other probate judges to continue enforcing the law. The short version of plaintiffs' brief? "Sucks to be you, Judge Davis." Federal court rulings cannot be overturned by state court rulings and once a law is found to be facially unconstitutional that finding applies not just to the plaintiffs but to all who are similarly situated and there isn't even any debate on the matter.
The brief is terrific. It's not very long and is well worth reading.