Jack Pidgeon and Larry Hicks v. Mayor Sylvester Turner and City of Houston

*75 The trial court denied the City of Houston's and its Mayor's pleas to the jurisdiction and issued a temporary injunction prohibiting them from "furnishing benefits to persons who were married in other jurisdictions to City employees of the same sex." While their interlocutory appeal was pending in the court of appeals, the United States Supreme Court held that states may not "exclude same-sex couples from civil marriage on the same terms and conditions *76 as opposite-sex couples." Obergefell v. Hodges , --- U.S. ----, 135 S.Ct. 2584 , 2605, 192 L.Ed.2d 609 (2015). The court of appeals then…