Case Name: Rims BARBER; Carol Burnett; Joan Bailey; Katherine Elizabeth Day; Anthony Laine Boyette; Don Fortenberry; Susan Glisson; Derrick Johnson; Dorothy C. Triplett; Renick Taylor; Brandilyne Mangum-Dear; Susan Mangum; Joshua Generation Metropolitan Community Church, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Governor Phil BRYANT, State of Mississippi; John Davis, Executive Director of the Mississippi Department of Human Services, Defendants-Appellants; Campaign for Southern Equality; The Reverend Doctor Susan Hrostowski, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Phil Bryant, in His Official Capacity as Governor of the State of Mississippi; John Davis, in His Official Capacity as Executive Director of the Mississippi Department of Human Services, Defendants-Appellants
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2017-09-29
Citations: 872 F.3d 671
Docket Number: No. 16-60477, No. 16-60478
Parties: Rims BARBER; Carol Burnett; Joan Bailey; Katherine Elizabeth Day; Anthony Laine Boyette; Don Fortenberry; Susan Glisson; Derrick Johnson; Dorothy C. Triplett; Renick Taylor; Brandilyne Mangum-Dear; Susan Mangum; Joshua Generation Metropolitan Community Church, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Governor Phil BRYANT, State of Mississippi; John Davis, Executive Director of the Mississippi Department of Human Services, Defendants-Appellants. Campaign for Southern Equality; The Reverend Doctor Susan Hrostowski, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Phil Bryant, in His Official Capacity as Governor of the State of Mississippi; John Davis, in His Official Capacity as Executive Director of the Mississippi Department of Human Services, Defendants-Appellants.
Judges: Before SMITH, ELROD, and HAYNES, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: Federal Reporter 3d Series
Volume: 872
Pages: 671–678

Head Matter:
Rims BARBER; Carol Burnett; Joan Bailey; Katherine Elizabeth Day; Anthony Laine Boyette; Don Fortenberry; Susan Glisson; Derrick Johnson; Dorothy C. Triplett; Renick Taylor; Brandilyne Mangum-Dear; Susan Mangum; Joshua Generation Metropolitan Community Church, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Governor Phil BRYANT, State of Mississippi; John Davis, Executive Director of the Mississippi Department of Human Services, Defendants-Appellants. Campaign for Southern Equality; The Reverend Doctor Susan Hrostowski, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Phil Bryant, in His Official Capacity as Governor of the State of Mississippi; John Davis, in His Official Capacity as Executive Director of the Mississippi Department of Human Services, Defendants-Appellants.
No. 16-60477, No. 16-60478
United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.
FILED September 29, 2017
Robert Bruce McDuff, Esq., Sibyl Byrd, Jacob Wayne Howard, Esq., Beth Levine Orlansky, Mississippi Center for Justice, Jackson, MS, Elizabeth Littrell, Lambda Legal Education & Defense Fund, Atlanta, GA, Susan L. Sommer, Lambda Legal Defense & Education Fund, Incorporated, New York, NY, for Plaintiffs-Appellees (Case No. 16-60477).
Jonathan F. Mitchell, Stanford Law School, Stanford, CA, Drew Landon Snyder, Tommy Darrell Goodwin, Esq., Assistant Attorney General, Office of the Governor for the State of Mississippi, Daniel Bradshaw, Mack Austin Reeves, Senior Attorney, Mississippi Department of Human Services, Executive Director’s Office, Jackson, MS, Kevin Hayden Theriot, Alliance Defending Freedom, Scottsdale, AZ, for Defendants-Appellants (Case Nos. 16-60477, 16-60478).
Roberta Ann Kaplan, Kaplan & Company, L.L.P. Jaren Elizabeth Janghorbani, Joshua David Kaye, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, L.L.P., New York, NY, Alysson Leigh Mills, Esq., Fishman Haygood, L.L.P., New Orleans, LA, for Plaintiffs-Appellees (Case No. 16-60478).
Kimberlee Wood Colby, Christian Legal Society, Springfield, VA, for Amici Curiae Christian Legal Society, National Association of Evangelicals.
Diego Armando Soto, Esq., Southern Poverty Law Center, Immigrant Justice Project, Montgomery, AL, for Amicus Curiae LGBT Youth in Mississippi and their Parents, Teachers, and Counselors.
Scott A. Keller, Solicitor, Office of the Solicitor General for the State of Texas, Austin, TX, for Amici Curiae State of Tex as, State of Arkansas, State of Louisiana, State of Nebraska, State of Nevada, State of Oklahoma, State of South Carolina, State of Utah, Paul R. LePage, Governor of Maine,
Deborah Jane Dewart, Attorney, Swans-boro, NC, for Amici Curiae North Carolina Values Coalition, Liberty, Life, and Law Foundation.
John Allen Eidsmoe, Senior Counsel, Foundation for Moral Law, Montgomery, AL, for Amicus Curiae Foundation for Moral Law.
Michael James Bentley, Esq., James William Manuel, Esq., Bradley Arant Boult Cummings, L.L.P., Jackson, MS, for Amici Curiae Sanderson Farms, Incorporated, John N. Palmer, Sr., Jack Reed, Jr., William A. Percy, II, Tim C. Medley, Sharpe & Wise, P.L.L.C., Kelly Kyle, Hal Caudell, Talamieka Brice, Amber Kirken-doll, Jessica Kirkendoll.
James H.R. Windels, Esq., Davis, Polk & Wardwell, L.L.P., New York, NY, for Amici Curiae Gay Men’s Health Crisis, Incorporated, AIDS Services Coalition, Grace House, Incorporated, My Brother’s Keeper, Incorporated.
Jeffrey Samuel Trachtman, Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel, L.L.P., New York, NY, for Amici Curiae Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Mississippi, General Synod of the United Church of Christ, Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association, Réconstructionist Rabbinical College and Jewish Reconstructionist Communities, Union for Reform Judaism, Unitarian Uni-versalist Association, United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism, Covenant Network of Presbyterians, Friends for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Concerns, Methodist Federation for Social Action, More Light Presbyterians, Muslims for Progressive Values, Open and Affirming Coalition of the United Church of Christ, Reconciling Ministries Network, ReconcilingWorks: Lutherans for Full Participation, Religious Institute, Incorporated.
Andrew O’Connor, Ropes & Gray, L.L.P., Boston, MA, Kim Nemirow, Ropes & Gray, Chicago, IL, for Amici Curiae GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders, National Center for Lesbian Rights, American Civil Liberties Union.
Charles C. Lifland, Esq., Justine M. Daniels, O’Melveny & Myers, L.L.P., Los Angeles, CA, for Amici Curiae American International Group, Incorporated, Belha-ven Residential, L.L.C., Bloomberg, L.P., Byrne and Associates, P.L.L.C., Chism and Company, Incorporated, Choice Hotels International, Incorporated, CVS Health Corporation, David Neil McCarty Law Firm, P.L.L.C., First Natchez Radio Group, Incorporated, Front Porch Fodder Publishing, L.L.C., Glassdoor, Incorporated, International Business Machines Corporation, Levi Strauss & Company, Mantle, L.L.C., Molpus Woodlands Group, Ocean Springs Seafood Market, Incorporated, Paracosm Entertainment, L.L.C., Pfizer, Incorporated, Pritchett Engineering & Planning, L.L.C., Replacements, Limited, T Enterprises, Incorporated, Mitchell Gold Company, doing business as Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams, ’Sip Magazine, L.L.C., Two Rivers Realty, L.L.C.
Richard Brian Katskee, Legal Director, Americans United for Separation of Church & State, Washington, DC, Nicole Erica Schiavo, Hogan Lovells US, L.L.P., New York, NY, for Amici Curiae Anti-Defamation League, Americans United for Separation of Church and State, Bend the Arc, Central Conference of American Rabbis, Hadassah, Interfaith Alliance, National Council of Jewish Women, People for the United Way Foundation, T’ruah: the Rabbinic Call for Human Rights, Women of Reform Judaism, Women’s League for Conservative Judaism Interfaith Alliance, Hindu American Foundation.
George Andrew Lundberg, Latham & Watkins, L.L.P., Los Angeles, CA, for Am-ici Curiae E. Tendayi Achiume, Katherine R. Allen, Nadav Antebi-Gruska, Emily A. Arnold, M. V. Lee Badgett.
Roy Theodore Englert, Jr., Robbins, Russell, Englert, Orseck, Untereiner & Sauber, L.L.P., Washington, DC, for Amici Curiae Caroline Mala Corbin, Ira C. Lupu, Micah J. Schwartzman, Richard C. Schrag-ger, Elizabeth Sepper, Nelson Tebbe, Robert Tuttle.
Before SMITH, ELROD, and HAYNES, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM:
Treating the petitions for rehearing en banc as petitions for panel rehearing, the petitions for panel rehearing are DENIED. The court having been polled at the request of a member of the court, and a majority of the judges who are in regular active service not having voted in favor (Fed. R. App. P. 35 and 5th Cíe. R. 35), the petitions for rehearing en banc are DENIED.
In the poll, 2 judges vote in favor of rehearing en banc, and 12 vote against. Voting in favor are Judges Dennis and Graves. Voting against are Chief Judge Stewart and Judges Jolly, Jones, Smith, Clement, Prado, Owen, Elrod, Southwick, Haynes, Higginson, and Costa.