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Octogenarian widow becomes the face of the legal fight for same sex marriage
An 83-year-old widow will carry the hopes of America’s gay community on her frail shoulders when she takes her landmark same-sex marriage case before the US Supreme Court next week. Edie Windsor, a lesbian who married in Canada, is seeking to overturn the federal Defense of Marriage Act, which has…
83-year-old widow asks Supreme Court to strike Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) on grounds of discrimination
Lawyers for Edith Windsor file brief ahead of March 7 hearing that urges justices to find anti-gay legislation unconstitutional Edith Windsor, the New York widow at the centre of a US supreme court legal challenge to the act that bans federal recognition of same-sex marriage, put her case on Tuesday…
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