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<b>BREAKING NEWS:</b> NY Appellate Court Recognizes Canadian Same-Sex Marriage
An Appellate Division, Fourth Department, panel unanimously ruled Feb. 1 that a gay couple's marriage in Canada should be recognized in New York. The ruling, the first appellate decision in the state to recognize a same-sex marriage from another jurisdiction, overturned a Monroe County judge's decision that Monroe Community College did not have to extend health benefits to an employee's lesbian partner.
The appeals panel held that the college employee, Patricia Martinez, and her partner, Lisa Ann Golden, are entitled to health coverage because there is no legal impediment in New York to the recognition of a same-sex marriage contracted in jurisdictions where it is legal.
The Court of Appeals has declined to accord such recognition to New York same-sex marriages. Until the state Legislature adopts legislation expressly “prohibiting the recognition of same-sex marriages solemnized abroad,” Justice Erin M. Peradotto wrote for the panel, “such marriages are entitled to recognition in New York.” Justices Robert G. Hurlbutt, Salvatore R. Martoche, Eugene M. Fahey and Samuel L. Green also sat on the panel. The decision reversed a ruling by Monroe County Justice Harold L. Galloway. Other lower court judges have split on the issue, with Albany and Westchester County justices supporting recognition and a Nassau County justice opposing it (NYLJ, Sept. 13, 2007). The issue is pending in the Second and Third departments. Martinez v. County of Monroe, 1562, will be published on Feb. 7.
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