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Roberta Kaplan

Then Comes Marriage: How Two Women Fought for and Won Equal Dignity for All

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Renowned litigator Roberta Kaplan knew from the beginning that it was the perfect case to bring down the so-called Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). Edie Windsor and Thea Spyer had been together as a couple, in sickness and in health, for more than forty years-enduring society's homophobia as well as Spyer's near total paralysis from multiple sclerosis. Although the couple was finally able to marry, when Spyer died the federal government refused to recognize their marriage, forcing Windsor to pay a huge estate tax bill.In this gripping, definitive account of one of our nation's most significant civil rights victories-named a Ms. Magazine Top 10… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Windsor, Edie (Solist) / Dickey, Lisa (Gespielt)
  • ISBN: 978-0-393-35336-5
  • EAN: 9780393353365
  • Produktnummer: 19745159
  • Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
  • Seitenangabe: 336 S.

Über den Autor


Roberta Kaplan is a partner at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP. Since winning United States v. Windsor, she litigated the case against the gay marriage ban in Mississippi and filed The People's Brief in the Supreme Court case of Obergefell v. Hodges. She lives in New York City with her wife and son.

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