Alaska Civil Liberties Union v. State

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• recognizing this distinction and holding that \spousal limitations\ in state and local programs such as employee life and health insurance and death benefits could not survive even minimum scrutiny under Alaska's Equal Protection Clause and were invalid
• restricting public benefits programs to different-sex married couples violates the rights of employees with same-sex partners to “equal rights, opportunities, and protection under the law”
• restricting public benefits programs to different-sex married couples violates the rights of employees with same-sex partners to “equal rights, opportunities, and protection under the law”
• Article I, section 1 of the Alaska Constitution requires \equal treatment of those similarly situated.\
• Article I, section 1 of the Alaska Constitution requires \equal treatment of those similarly situated.\
• “[T]he proper comparison is between same-sex couples and opposite-sex couples, whether or not they are married.”

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