Massachusetts: “SJC clarifies benefits for same-sex marriage”
The ABA Journal reports: “A Massachusetts woman in a same-sex relationship who married her partner as soon as it was possible to do so in the state cannot act as a plaintiff in a medical malpractice case concerning a time before the two were legally wed, the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts has decided.”
The Boston Globe reports: SJC clarifies benefits for same-sex marriage: Court says rules do not extend to time before 2004 landmark decision
Charron v. Amaral, No. SJC-09942 (Mass. July 10, 2008)