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EU top court upholds pension rights for same-sex partners

By Bernard Hibbitts (editor) and University of Pittsburgh School of Law students.

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[JURIST] The European Court of Justice [official website] Tuesday ruled [judgment] that a person in a same-sex partnership has the right to collect their partner's pension benefits after that partner's death. The ruling came in the case of a man who was in a registered same-sex partnership in Germany. According to the court's press release [PDF text]:As regards the question whether the refusal to

Full post as published by JURIST - The Paper Chase on April 01, 2008 (boomark / email).

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