Paula Lopez, January 22, 2015. On Friday, January 16, 2015, the Supreme Court agreed to hear an appeal in four consolidated cases[i], challenging the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision upholding same-sex marriage bans in Michigan, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Ohio.  The Supreme Court’s decision to finally take up the issue of gay marriage was foreseen by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who told a Minnesota audience in September 2014 that if the Sixth Circuit’s forthcoming decision created a split among the circuits by deviating from other decisions striking down…