Four same-sex couples sued Gov. Scott Walker and other public officials Monday in an attempt to overturn the state's seven-year-old amendment to the state constitution banning gay marriage.
The lawsuit, which Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen immediately pledged to fight, also seeks to block the state's obscure "marriage evasion" law that makes it a crime for couples here to get married in another state if the marriage wouldn't be recognized in Wisconsin.