 Oral arguments for the consolidated "Love" and "Bourke" cases were held on August 6, 2014; the Sixth Circuit heard same-sex marriage cases stemming from Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee on that date as well.On November 6, the Sixth Circuit ruled 2–1 that Kentucky's ban on same-sex marriage does not violate the constitution.It said it was bound by the U.S. Supreme Court's 1972 action in a similar case, "Baker v. Nelson", which dismissed a same-sex couple's marriage claim "for want of a substantial federal question."