NY State Court to hear challenge to benefits to gay spouses

Posted on October 15, 2008 
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A midlevel state appeals court is scheduled to hear arguments Wednesday on whether New York’s policy granting benefits to couples legally married elsewhere should stand.

In March, Acting State Supreme Court Justice Thomas McNamara upheld the 2007 policy of the Department of Civil Service that extended benefits to those spouses. He rejected a challenge by four plaintiffs claiming the policy violated New York’s Constitution by using public funds to aid then Gov. Eliot Spitzer’s political objectives.

Appeal arguments are set before the Appellate Division of State Supreme Court in Albany.
 

Court to hear challenge to benefits to gay spouses
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