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Government

Mar. 11, 2011

Stay Sought in Gay Benefits Case

The Department of Justice has asked for a 60-day stay in a challenge to the federal Defense of Marriage Act in the Northern District to give Congress more time to decide whether to intervene in the case to defend the law.


By Rebecca Beyer


Daily Journal Staff Writer


Department of Justice attorneys have asked U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken for a 60-day stay in a class action in which gay California state employees are challenging their spouses' exclusion from a long-term care insurance program. In a filing Wednesday, the department's attorneys noted the Obama administration's decision to cease defending the federal Defense of Marriage Act, which is the law ...

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