They are representing the Alabama Policy Council and Alabama Citizens Action Program who petitioned the Alabama Supreme Court to issue its recent ruling. He believes that federal District Judge Granade's ruling has very limited scope. It only covers the individuals directly involved in the case: the plaintiff couples and the one Probate Judge: Don Davis in Mobile County. It does not require other probate judges elsewhere in Alabama to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. Also, it does not require Judge Davis to issue licenses to same-sex couples other than the plaintiffs in that case. He said: