The Virginia gay marriage case is one of several that could go to the U.S. Supreme Court. A professor at the UVa law school says it is a complicated case that could be challenged. “This case, like the case is California, has a complicated standing question,” says Deborah Hellman, F.D.G. Ribble Professor of Law. “That is, who is it that gets to challenge what the Fourth Circuit has done. Normally the state defends its own law, and with the elected officials in Virginia no longer wanting to defend the law, it has an additional complication. It won't just be about the issue ...