Four same-sex couples who were wed in June, during the week after a federal judge declared a state constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage to be unconstitutional, filed a lawsuit Wednesday asking that their marriages be legally recognized by the state of Wisconsin.

The couples married in Winnebago County, Brown County, Waukesha County and Milwaukee County between June 6 and June 13. On June 6, U.S. District Judge Barbara Crabb ruled that the state's Marriage Amendment was unconstitutional. During the week that followed, more than 500 same-sex couples married in courthouses across Wisconsin, but that ended on June 13, when Crabb stayed her ruling.

The lawsuit, filed by the ACLU, asks a federal judge in Madison to declare that the state's refusal to recognize the marriages violates the due process and equal protection rights of all same-sex couples who married and to order the state to stop refusing to recognize those marriages as valid.

The judge assigned to the lawsuit is not indicated in court records.

According to the lawsuit, the four couples and their families "are now being denied the dignity, recognition, privileges and benefits that all couples legally married in Wisconsin and their families deserve and are entitled to under the law."

Their marriages were "legal, valid and recognized by state officials acting in good faith within the scope of their duties under Wisconsin law when the plaintiffs entered into the marriage between June 6 and June 13," the lawsuit states. "Equal protection and due process protect these marriages from being retroactively invalidated by the state, regardless of what ultimately happens in the separate litigation challenging Wisconsin's ban on marriage for same-sex couples."

In that battle, a three-judge panel of the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld Crabb's findings on Sept. 4. The state has appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court.

By seeking to withdraw the validity and legal recognition of the same-sex marriages that took place in June, the lawsuit states, "the governor of Wisconsin and other state officials have placed plaintiffs and their families in an intolerable state of legal limbo that threatens their well-being, health, financial security and family integrity, and denies their dignity as free and equal citizens."

Dane County issued more than 210 marriage licenses to same-sex couples between June 6 and June 13.