 Same-sex couples immediately sought and received marriage licenses and the decision was not appealed.One county clerk sought repeatedly without success to intervene to defend the law.On July 9, 2013, following the U.S. Supreme Court decision in "United States v. Windsor", the ACLU filed suit in U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania on behalf of 23 plaintiffs—10 couples, 2 of their children, and a widow—seeking to overturn Pennsylvania's 1996 statutory ban on same-sex marriage.