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发帖数: 4174 | 1 Golinski Has Her Day in Court, DOJ Sends Senior Lawyer To Argue DOMA's
Unconstitutionality
Posted by Chris Geidner |
December 16, 2011 5:10 PM | Permalink
The Department of Justice sent one of its top lawyers to federal court in
San Francisco today to argue that the Defense of Marriage Act's federal
definition of marriage unconstitutionally limits Karen Golinski's ability to
secure health insurance for her wife.
Golinski's case, which began as an ordinary request to include her wife, Amy
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发帖数: 4174 | 2 Golinski v. Office of Personnel Management
The Case: In 2008, Karen Golinski, an employee of the Ninth Circuit Court of
Appeals, requested that her wife be added to her family health insurance
plan. When the US Office of Personnel Management (OPM) refused, citing DOMA,
Golinski filed a lawsuit in the Ninth U.S. Circuit. She won her case, but
the OPM refused to abide by the order. Golinski eventually sued again in
order to force the OPM to comply with the decision.
The Circuit: Golinski was filed... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 19713 | 3 Justice Dept.: Strike Down DOMA
By Trudy Ring
KAREN GOLINSKI X390 (Jim Wilson/The New York Times) | ADVOCATE.COM
The Department of Justice Friday gave pro–marriage equality activists a
pleasant surprise by arguing strongly against the Defense of Marriage Act in
a brief filed in federal court that acknowledges the history of
discrimination against gays and lesbians.
The brief urged a U.S. appeals court in San Francisco not to dismiss federal
employee Karen Golinski’s (pictured, right) lawsuit aga... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 19713 | 4 Bright Spots on Gay Immigration Rights Front
By Andrew Harmon
IMMIGRATION RALLY MAIN X390 (FAIR USE) | ADVOCATE.COM
Following news last week that immigration officials agreed to cancel
deportation proceedings in one high-profile case, two more gay binational
couples have seen positive developments in their attempts to stay together
in the country despite the discriminatory Defense of Marriage Act, which the
Obama administration issued a resounding court argument against on Friday.
Both cases inv... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 19713 | 5 One-hundred thirty members of Congress filed a joint amicus brief supportive
of a lesbian couple challenging the so-called Defense of Marriage Act in
court.
Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, and all four openly gay members of the House,
representatives Tammy Baldwin, Barney Frank, David Cicilline, and Jared
Polis signed the brief released Tuesday for Golinski v. Office of Personnel
Management. Karen Golinski, a federal court employee, sued the government
after being denied equal spousal benefits for... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1822 | 6 Court Orders End to DADT
By Michelle Garcia and Andrew Harmon
A three-judge panel of the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled
Wednesday that the U.S. military can no longer enforce the "don't ask, don't
tell" policy.
Though President Barack Obama asserted in a news conference last week that
certification of DADT repeal passed by Congress will be completed in "weeks,
not months," the ninth circuit panel ruled that its stay on a federal judge
's 2010 ruling against the policy should be imme... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1628 | 7 你懂个屁啊
http://www.seacoastonline.com/articles/20110512-NEWS-105120415S
alary data
5/10/2011
University of New Hampshire
Tenure Track Faculty
Excludes Leaves without Pay
$196,520 - Straus, Murray A (Professor)
$180,360 - Benassi, Victor A (Professor)
$180,310 - Torbert, Roy B (Professor)
$178,770 - Sparr, T M (Professor)
$178,550 - Greenberg, Arthur (Professor)
$178,330 - Hiley, David R (Professor)
$172,140 - Eggers, Walter F (Professor)
$171,220 - Pillemer, David B (Professor)
$170,700 - Mallory,... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4174 | 8 Why timing is crucial in the ongoing same-sex marriage cases
Rutgers law professor Carlos Ball argues that it would be better for
marriage equality supporters if the Supreme Court hears a DOMA case before
it considers Perry v. Schwarzenegger.
The following is an essay for our same-sex marriage symposium by Carlos A.
Ball, professor at the Rutgers University School of Law (Newark). Professor
Ball is the author of The Right to be Parents: LGBT Families and the
Transformation of Parenthood (NYU Pr... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2153 | 9 US District Court Judge Jeffrey White has ruled that part of the Defense of
Marriage Act is unconstitutional. Judge White sits in San Francisco was, and
was appointed to the bench by George W. Bush. The case centers around Karen
Golinski and her request to have her wife covered by spousal benefits.
White stated that the law could not pass the “heightened scrutiny” test or
even the “rational basis” test.
White wrote “The imposition of subjective moral beliefs of a majority upon
a minority cannot ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 19713 | 10 Edith Windsor, an 83-year-old New York widow forced to pay more than $363,
000 in estate taxes because the federal government did not recognize her
marriage to her late spouse Thea Spyer, filed a petition Monday asking the
Supreme Court to hear her challenge against the Defense of Marriage Act.
The American Civil Liberties Union filed the petition, known as a writ of
certiorari, on behalf of Windsor with Roberta Kaplan and others attorneys
from Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP and th... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 19713 | 11 New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and City Council Speaker Christine
Quinn filed a brief Wednesday joining their constituent, Edith Windsor, in
asking the Supreme Court to hear her challenge against the Defense of
Marriage Act.
Windsor, 83, is suing the federal government over $363,000 in estate taxes
she was forced to pay after her spouse, Thea Spyer, died in 2009. The couple
was together for more than 40 years and had married in Canada in 2007, but
because of section 3 of DOMA, the federal... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4174 | 12 据我所知，目前已经有判决的DOMA诉讼全部都是我们赢：
１。Massachusetts v. United States Department Of HHS et al
The suit claims that Congress "overstepped its authority, undermined states'
efforts to recognize marriages between same-sex couples, and codified an
animus towards gay and lesbian people.
On July 8, 2010, the district court that DOMA section 3 violates the Tenth
Amendment and falls outside Congress' authority under the Spending Clause of
the Constitution.
In May 2012, the First Circuit Court of Appeals unanimo... 阅读全帖 |
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