Lambda Legal: Another NY court approves Canadian same sex "marriages"
Lambda Legal issued this press release yesterday (3.5.2008). It begins:
A New York State Judge has upheld the New York Department of Civil Service’s policy recognizing Canadian marriages of same-sex couples for purposes of spousal health insurance coverage for public employees . . .
State Supreme Court (New York’s trial court level) Justice Thomas J. McNamara wrote, "The policy memorandum issued by the New York State Department of Civil Service Employee Benefits Division in which it recognized, as spouses, the parties to any same sex marriage, performed in jurisdictions where such marriage is legal, is both lawful and within its authority." . . .