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    • How one woman’s bad reaction to her daughter’s coming out led to nationwide marriage equality
      Life

      How one woman’s bad reaction to her daughter’s coming out led to nationwide marriage equality

      Roberta Kaplan’s mom did not take the news well. She started banging her head repeatedly against the wall.

      Tuesday, January 19, 2021
    • Marriage equality hero Edie Windsor gets the ‘Drunk History’ treatment & it is hilarious
      Life

      Marriage equality hero Edie Windsor gets the ‘Drunk History’ treatment & it is hilarious

      It didn’t quite go down that way. But it would have been more interesting if it did.

      Wednesday, February 13, 2019
    • Hillary Clinton delivers a touching eulogy for Edie Windsor
      News (USA)

      Hillary Clinton delivers a touching eulogy for Edie Windsor

      Clinton said that the marriage equality activist “helped change hearts and minds, including mine.”

      Saturday, September 16, 2017
    • ‘Edie, Edie,’ chants a jubilant crowd as Windsor emerges from Supreme Court
      News (USA)

      ‘Edie, Edie,’ chants a jubilant crowd as Windsor emerges from Supreme Court

      WASHINGTON — Edith Windsor emerged from the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday to loud cheers from marriage equality supporters gathered outside the high court, on this second day of back-to-back same-sex marriage cases.

      Wednesday, March 27, 2013
    • Day 2 at the high court: Justices to hear challenge to Defense of Marriage Act
      News (USA)

      Day 2 at the high court: Justices to hear challenge to Defense of Marriage Act

      WASHINGTON — In the second of back-to-back gay marriage cases, the Supreme Court is turning to a constitutional challenge to the law that prevents legally married gay Americans from collecting federal benefits generally available to straight married couples.

      Wednesday, March 27, 2013
    • Edith Windsor calls on U.S. Supreme Court to strike down DOMA
      News (USA)

      Edith Windsor calls on U.S. Supreme Court to strike down DOMA

      Edith Windsor, the New York widow who was forced to pay $363,000 in estate taxes in 2009 upon the death of her spouse, Thea Spyer, made her case to the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday, filing a brief in her challenge to the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA).

      Tuesday, February 26, 2013
    • Amicus brief: U.S. Supreme Court does not have authority to rule on DOMA
      News (USA)

      Amicus brief: U.S. Supreme Court does not have authority to rule on DOMA

      The U.S. Supreme Court does not have the authority to rule on the constitutionality of the federal Defense of Marriage Act, argued a Harvard professor in a brief filed Thursday with the high court.

      Thursday, January 24, 2013
    • Joy trumps jurisprudence in gay marriage case
      Commentary

      Joy trumps jurisprudence in gay marriage case

      One of two cases that the Supreme Court has decided to hear in the coming year will challenge the Defense of Marriage Act. Although this is ostensibly a legal case, it is really about competing narratives – and there is nothing same-sex marriage opponents offer that comes close to the touching tale of Edie Windsor and her deceased wife Thea Spyer. Their struggle not only tugs at the heartstrings, it transforms the heart into a marionette, dancing merrily to sappy love songs. This case screams out for fair resolution, and the court runs the risk of delegitimizing itself as draconian and doctrinaire if it denies this couple justice.

      Thursday, December 13, 2012
    • Second Circuit case on DOMA may be high court’s strongest contender for deciding law’s fate
      News (USA)

      Second Circuit case on DOMA may be high court’s strongest contender for deciding law’s fate

      While marriage equality supporters have been giving thanks for the recent ballot box victories and the Second Circuit’s Windsor v. U.S. decision, the most recent Defense of Marriage strike-down by a federal court in mid-October, the law-focused among us are also looking ahead to the next big question: What will the U.S. Supreme Court do on Nov. 30, when it is scheduled to decide on the marriage-related cert petitions pending before it?

      Wednesday, November 28, 2012
    • Federal appeals court: DOMA discriminates against married, same-sex couples
      News (USA)

      Federal appeals court: DOMA discriminates against married, same-sex couples

      NEW YORK — A federal appeals court on Thursday ruled that the federal “Defense of Marriage Act” (DOMA) unconstitutionally discriminates against married same-sex couples.

      Thursday, October 18, 2012
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