President of the Human Rights Campaign, Joe Solmonese, referred to as the decision a "setback" and Ken Choe, the ACLU legal professional who argued on behalf of the plaintiffs, expressed hope that, not like nearly all of the bench, the general Assembly would be able to see "that lesbian and gay couples type committed relationships and loving households identical to heterosexual couples". Mimi's effort to see her new nephew was rewarded for, as she asserted a few years later, "I knew the second I first set eyes on John that he was going to be something particular." Mimi's reaction displayed both great premonition or, extra likely, pure favoritism. In 1975, Clela Rorex, the Boulder County Clerk, turned the first county clerk in the nation to problem marriage licenses to same-intercourse couples. Suthers v. Hall supplied legal cover for the Boulder County clerk to issue similar-intercourse marriage licenses as a form of civil disobedience. However, on July 10, 2014, a day after the Brinkman ruling, District Court Judge Andrew Hartman found that while Hall violated the regulation-"There may be little argument that Clerk Hall is engaging in a form of civil disobedience. She apparently is taking the position posited by St. Augustine and adopted notably by Martin Luther King Jr. that, 'an unjust legislation is not any law at all.'"-but he refused to impose a restraining order or injunction upon her, as the state did not meet its excessive burden for a keep.
