Wisconsin Domestic Partner Foes Say Law Too Much Like Marriage

Wisconsin’s domestic partnership law should be struck down because it too closely mimics marriage, violating a state constitutional amendment, lawyers for a group of taxpayers told the state’s highest court.

The plaintiffs, who first sued in 2010, asked the seven-member court in Madison to reverse lower-court rulings that upheld the domestic partnership provision signed into law in 2009 by former Governor Jim Doyle, a Democrat.