Complex sentence: After being denied a marriage license, a lesbian couple filed a lawsuit, "Brinkman v. Long", on October 30,2013, in the Seventeenth Judicial District seeking to overturn the state's constitutional ban on same-sex marriage.
Split into simpler sentences: After being denied a marriage license, a lesbian couple filed a lawsuit on October 30,2013 in the Seventeenth Judicial District. The case, "Brinkman v. Long", seeks to overturn the state's constitutional ban on same-sex marriage.