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发帖数: 19713 | 1 Jan Brewer Asks Supreme Court To Strip Benefits of Same-Sex Partners
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a
ruling which provides domestic-partner benefits to same-sex partners of
state employees.
Arizona claims that the 9th Circuit misconstrued the equal-protection clause
. Blog JoeMyGod quotes Chris Geldner's report: After the 2011 decision,
lawyers for the state asked the Ninth Circuit to re-hear the case en banc,
or by an 11-judge panel. On April 3, the Ninth Circuit denied the request,
starting the 90-day clock for the governor to file a petition for a writ of
certiorari asking the Supreme Court to take the case. The Ninth Circuit
ruling, which upheld a trial-court ruling, kept an Arizona law from going
into effect that, as the appeals court held, “would have terminated
eligibility for health-care benefits of state employees’ same-sex partners.
” Paula S. Bickett, the chief counsel for Civil Appeals in Arizona Attorney
General’s Tom Horne (R)’s office, is the counsel of record for the Gov.
Brewer. Lambda Legal is representing the plaintiff couples, who have until
August 6 to submit their response to the governor’s petition. | D**S
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