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Ninth Circuit grants survivor benefits to test-tube twins.

Publication: Trial
Publication Date: 01-SEP-04 		Format: Online
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The Ninth Circuit has ruled that two children who were conceived in vitro are entitled to their father's Social Security benefits--even though he died almost a year before they were born.

the court limited its ruling to Arizona law, but the decision will probably have wide impact: "Administrative law judges from other states have been following this case with great interest," said Hagit Ulel of New York City, who represented the plaintiffs. (Gillett-Netting v. Barnhart, 371 F.3d 593 (9th Cir. 2004).)

Similar lawsuits have been filed in other states, but this is the first to...

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