April DeBoer and Jayne Rowse

April DeBoer and Jayne Rowse, the plaintiffs, are Mary’s clients. April and Jayne have been together for more than 15 years, have adopted 4 children (2 each) and are in the process on a fifth. But in Michigan, lesbians are not allowed to marry. And, since unmarried people can’t co-adopt, if anything were to happen to either of them, half of their kids could be ‘orphaned’. The couple sued Michigan for the right to get married, but lost. They appealed and, the United States Supreme Court accepted to hear the case. Now, April and Jayne’s case could decide gay marriage for the entire nation.