LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A district judge has issued an order to block a Nebraska prison policy that prevented two inmates from marrying.

Lancaster County District Judge Robert Otte on Tuesday found the prison’s argument to be “constitutionally flawed” and ordered prison officials stop enforcing its policy.

According to a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union of Nebraska, inmates Paul Gillpatrick and Niccole Wetherell had their request to marry denied because corrections officials had been unwilling to transport either of them to the other prison for a wedding ceremony, or allow them to marry via video. Corrections officials argue state law requires married couples to be in the same room for the ceremony.

Otte said the prison policy was based on its own interpretation of a statute about weddings, which isn’t under its direct purview.