October 2008
The Supreme Court released Kerrigan v. Commissioner of Public Health, S.C. 17716, on the Judicial Branch website, www.jud.ct.gov, on October 10, 2008. Concluding that sexual orientation is a quasi-suspect class under the Connecticut Constitution, the Court held that denying marriage licenses to same-sex couples violated the equal protection provisions in the Connecticut Constitution. The Court directed the trial court to grant the plaintiffs' motion for summary judgment and application for injunctive relief. The decision will be officially released on October 28, 2008. Attorneys Bartschi and Dowd were cooperating counsel on the case with lead counsel Bennett C. Klein and Mary Bonauto of Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders of Boston, Massachusetts. For more information about the case, go to www.glad.org.
March, 2008
Attorney Wesley W. Horton's book, The History of the Connecticut Supreme Court, was published by Thomsen/West. Attorney Brendon P. Levesque co-authored two of the chapters with Attorney Horton.
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June, 2008
Attorney Karen L. Dowd spoke on ethics at the NBI seminar, mastering mergers and acquisitions.
February, 2008
Attorney Kimberly A. Knox, as co-chair of the Appellate Advocacy Committee, introduced Chief Justice Chase Rogers at the Committee's Reception for the new Cheif Justice.
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