 In 2001, after the initial dismissal of the lawsuit, the Florida Fifth District Court of Appeal ruled in "Frandsen v. County of Brevard" that the denial of marriage licenses to same-sex couples did not violate the state Constitution's equal protection for gender classifications.On January 21, 2014, six same-sex couples, some of whom have children or grandchildren, filed a lawsuit in the Eleventh Judicial Circuit Court of Florida in and for Miami-Dade County challenging the state's ban on same-sex marriage.The plaintiffs allege an Equal Protection violation of their rights under the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.