Harris v. Millennium Hotel

How courts have described this case

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• rejecting cost savings justification under rational basis review of workers’ compensation provision that excluded same-gender couples from receiving death benefits
• rejecting cost savings justification under 9 rational basis review of workers’ compensation provision that excluded same-gender 10 couples from receiving death benefits
• rejecting cost savings justification under rational basis review of workers’ compensation provision that excluded same-gender couples from receiving death benefits
• looking to statute’s terms and definitions to conclude “the workers’ compensation statute creates a classification between married and unmarried couples”
• reading Alaska Worker’s Compensation Act and Marriage Amendment together to create two classes: opposite-sex couples for whom death benefits are available and same-sex couples for whom such benefits are unavailable
• reading the Alaska Workers’ Compensation Act and the Marriage Amendment to create two classes: opposite-sex couples for whom death benefits are available, and same-sex couples for whom such benefits are unavailable

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