 By the time oral arguments were scheduled, the decision in the companion case "Love v. Beshear" was handed down and appealed; the Sixth Circuit thus consolidated the cases for argument (see below).The addition of intervening plaintiffs the "Bourke" lawsuit (dealing with the recognition of out-of-state same-sex marriages, see above) on the related issue of denial of marriage licenses to in-state same-sex couples, required the court to bifurcate the case and restyle it.