Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage

I'm in vacation mode, so I'm late in blogging about last Monday's US Supreme Court ruling in Hillman v. Maretta , which I wrote ...

I was plenty busy with the same-sex marriage cases and the Indian Child Welfare Act case, so I'm just now catching up on another case th...

I'm in the middle of writing an article about a case from Westchester County, NY, in which a teacher, Kathe McBride, sued the school dis...

Last week the Ninth Circuit denied Arizona's petition for rehearing en banc in Diaz v. Brewer .  I have written about what I dislike ab...

In 2005, Calvin Radtke and Christine Alisen were married in Minnesota.  Calvin works for United Parcel Service, and he added Christine to th...

I've got a special connection to El Paso, given that my partner and I have a residence across the New Mexico border in Las Cruces. El Pa...

This week, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released a report on benefits offered employees in the public and private sphere in March 2011. ...

Columbia Law prof Katherine Franke got a prime placement today in the New York Times for a tempered view of what comes with marriage equali...

Going on two years ago, Wisconsin adopted a domestic partner registry in spite of the fact that it has a "super-DOMA" constitution...

Last month I lauded the recently granted "plus one" benefit scheme implemented for 35,000 Michigan state employees. Well, those ...

In 2008, by administrative regulation, Arizona made available to state employees health benefits for their domestic partners, defined by at ...

Almost three years ago, the Michigan Supreme Court ruled that granting health benefits to same-sex domestic partners of government employees...

The long-awaited Defense Department report on issues associated with repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell (DADT) is now out. One of its ...

It's no surprise to readers of this blog (or my book ) that I dislike domestic partner benefits extended only to same-sex couples. The ...

When the Obama administration issues its regulations on taking leave to care for a partner's child under the Family and Medical Leave Ac...

I posted last fall about proposed regulations from the Office of Personnel Management concerning for whom a federal employee may use sick o...

Domestic partners of federal employees are now eligible for long term care insurance. The Obama administration determined that it could mak...

Early news says that one of the benefits Obama is extending to gay federal employees is the ability to use their sick leave to care for part...

Service Employees International Union (SEIU) has been reading my book, Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage: Valuing All Families under the L...

The Advocate has printed the draft of a letter by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton detailing the extension of benefits to the domestic pa...