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KERRIGAN v. STATE

No. CV-04 4001813.

909 A.2d 89 (2006)

49 Conn.Sup. 644

Elizabeth KERRIGAN et al. v. STATE of Connecticut et al.

Superior Court of Connecticut, Judicial District of New Haven.

July 12, 2006.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Maureen M. Murphy, New Haven, for the plaintiffs.

Jane R. Rosenberg, assistant attorney general, with whom were Richard Blumenthal, attorney general, and Susan Quinn Cobb and Robert W. Clark, assistant attorneys general, for the defendants.

PITTMAN, J.

The 2005 session of the Connecticut General Assembly took the courageous and historic step of conferring on same sex couples who register their relationship with the state the same rights granted to opposite sex couples who do so. Governor M. Jodi Rell signed the bill into law, to take effect on October 1, 2005. In passing this legislation, Public Acts 2005, No. 05-10 (P.A. 05-10), the General Assembly reserved the term "marriage" for the union of couples...

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