In March 2015, Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana and Nebraska succeeded in enjoining enforcement of a recent Department of Labor rule that extended federal Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) protections to same-sex spouses whose marriages were valid in the states in which they were celebrated. In light of the U.S. Supreme Court's June 26, 2015 decision in Obergefell v. Hodges, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas dissolved this injunction, in effect requiring these states to extend equal marriage protections to same-sex couples.
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