Court blocks benefits ban for gays
Sat, 07/24/2010 - 12:01am
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PHOENIX — Calling it illegal discrimination, a federal judge has blocked the state from canceling insurance benefits for the domestic partners of gay and lesbian state and university employees.
U.S. District Court Judge John Sedwick on Friday rejected arguments by attorneys for the state that there is nothing unfair in the law, approved by legislators last year and signed by Gov. Jan Brewer. They called it a “neutral policy’’ that treats all unmarried employees equally.
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