Calpers Must Offer Same-Sex Couples Long-Term Care, Court Rules
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The California Public Employees’ Retirement System, the largest U.S. pension fund, must offer long-term care insurance to same-sex couples and domestic partners, a federal judge ruled.
U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken in Oakland, California, ruling in a state workers’ lawsuit, said a federal statute outlawing gay marriage is unconstitutional to the extent that it bars same-sex spouses and domestic partners from enrolling in Calpers’s plan.