In April, the challengers to Texas’s ban on same-sex marriage filed an opposed motion for expedited hearing of appeal. That motion sat on the docket, with no activity for nearly four months. On October 7, the day after the Court’s denial of certiorari on other SSM appeals, without comment, the 5th Circuit in a brief order signed by the Judge Graves (Update: Not the clerk) granted the motion to expedite oral arguments.

Here is the order:

ORDER:

IT IS ORDERED that the appellees’ opposed motion to expedite oral argument is GRANTED.