Domestic Partnerships
Bassett et al. v. Snyder
The 桃子视频 and 桃子视频of Michigan have filed a lawsuit asking a federal court to strike down a new state law that bans many public entities from providing health care insurance to the domestic partners of their employees. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of school teachers, city and county workers and their domestic partners who will lose their health insurance as a result of the law.
Status: Closed (Judgment)
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Missouri
Aug 2013
Domestic Partnerships
Glossip v. Missouri Department of Transportation and Highway Patrol Employees' Retirement System
Kelly Glossip and Dennis Engelhard had been committed domestic partners for 15 years when Dennis, a Missouri State Trooper, was killed while responding to an accident on Christmas Day, 2009. Missouri offers survivor benefits to spouses of state troopers who are killed in the line of duty, but excludes committed same-sex partners from receiving those benefits.
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Missouri
Aug 2013
Domestic Partnerships
Glossip v. Missouri Department of Transportation and Highway Patrol Employees' Retirement System
Kelly Glossip and Dennis Engelhard had been committed domestic partners for 15 years when Dennis, a Missouri State Trooper, was killed while responding to an accident on Christmas Day, 2009. Missouri offers survivor benefits to spouses of state troopers who are killed in the line of duty, but excludes committed same-sex partners from receiving those benefits.
Montana
Jul 2013
Domestic Partnerships
Donaldson and Guggenheim v. Montana
Six committed same-sex couples have sued the state of Montana for failing to offer legal protections to same-sex couples and their families in violation of the Montana Constitution's rights of privacy, dignity and the pursuit of life's basic necessities and its guarantees of equal protection and due process. The goal of this lawsuit is to see that same-sex couples are able to protect their families with the same kind of legal protections that the State offers to different-sex couples through marriage.
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Montana
Jul 2013
Domestic Partnerships
Donaldson and Guggenheim v. Montana
Six committed same-sex couples have sued the state of Montana for failing to offer legal protections to same-sex couples and their families in violation of the Montana Constitution's rights of privacy, dignity and the pursuit of life's basic necessities and its guarantees of equal protection and due process. The goal of this lawsuit is to see that same-sex couples are able to protect their families with the same kind of legal protections that the State offers to different-sex couples through marriage.
Pennsylvania
Aug 2011
Domestic Partnerships
Wiessmann v. State College Area School District - (PA Domestic Partner Benefits)
Challenge to public school policy that grants health care benefits to domestic partners of employees only if the partners are not of the same sex.
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Pennsylvania
Aug 2011
Domestic Partnerships
Wiessmann v. State College Area School District - (PA Domestic Partner Benefits)
Challenge to public school policy that grants health care benefits to domestic partners of employees only if the partners are not of the same sex.
Court Case
Jul 2009
Domestic Partnerships
Levitt & Dakota v. New Mexico Retiree Health Authority
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Court Case
Jul 2009
Domestic Partnerships