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...order to urge policymakers to act, participants in the briefing cited the results of numerous studies conducted by researchers at Harvard Medical School...
...others when he was running a marathon. Wulsin, 10 miles into the race and exhausted, saw Halsey cheering for him along the sidelines. Halsey stepped over the sidelines and ran alongside Wulsin for the next 10 miles still wearing his khakis. Wulsin said that Halsey’s unusual act drew the attention of the crowd, which began cheering “Go Pants...
...fiery defense of the rights of the judiciary to manage its own employees. But if the Administration chooses to fight the order, it will have to tread carefully to avoid looking to gay-rights advocates like it is waging war in defense of a statute - the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) - that candidate Obama had said should be overturned...
Kozinski's unusual and bluntly worded Golinski order comes 10 months after the judge, acting in his capacity as administrator in an employee dispute resolution, determined that the federal Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts had erred in rejecting Golinski's inclusion of her wife on her insurance election form. Sidestepping constitutional questions about equal treatment for gays under the law, he agreed that the Defense of Marriage Act forbids the government from recognizing gay marriages. But Kozinski's argument centers on the Federal Health Benefits Act, which says that coverage must be provided for an employee's family, including...
...which requires a decision on a hard question of constitutional law, it has long been our practice to prefer the alternative," Kozinski wrote in the January order. "The discussion above illustrates the constitutional thicket into which the discriminatory construction drags us. I therefore construe the Federal Employee Health Benefits Act to permit the coverage of same-sex spouses." (See more about gay rights...