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Article Excerpt
The Montana University System must offer health insurance benefits to domestic partners of its gay and lesbian employees, as it does to spouses of its heterosexual employees, the Montana Supreme Court has ruled. The court held that denying coverage to employees' same-sex partners violates their equal protection rights under the Montana Constitution. (Snetsinger v. Montana Univ. Sys., No. 03-238, 2004 WL 3015672 (Mont. Dec. 30, 2004).)
Carol Snetsinger and Carla Grayson are employees of the Montana University System; each has a same-sex domestic partner. The system offers benefits to employees' spouses as well as to opposite-sex partners who sign an "affidavit of common law marriage"--but same-sex partners do not qualify for benefits. Snetsinger, Grayson, their domestic partners, and the nonprofit organization PRIDE, Inc., filed...
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