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IRIZARRY v. BOARD OF EDUC. CITY CHICAGO

No. 00-3216

251 F.3d 604 (2001)

Milagros Irizarry, individually and on behalf of all similarly situated employees of the Chicago Board of Education, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Board of Education of The City of Chicago, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided May 15, 2001

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard P. Campbell (argued), Campbell & Divencenzo, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Taryn Springs, Lee A. Lowder (argued), Chicago School Reform Bd. of Trustees, Chicago, IL, for Defendant-Appellee.

Patricia M. Logue, Lambda Legal Defense & Educ. Fund, Chicago, IL, for Amicus Curiae.

Before POSNER, MANION, and KANNE, Circuit Judges.

POSNER, Circuit Judge.

Although Milagros Irizarry has lived with the same man for more than two decades and they have two (now adult) children, they have never married. As an employee of the Chicago public school system, she receives health benefits but he does not, even though he is her "domestic partner" (the term for persons who are cohabiting with each other in a relationship similar to marriage), though he would if he were her husband. In July 1999, the Chicago...

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