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GLOSSIP v. MISSOURI DEPT. OF TRANSP.

No. SC 92583.

411 S.W.3d 796 (2013)

Kelly D. GLOSSIP, Appellant, v. MISSOURI DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION AND HIGHWAY PATROL EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Missouri, En Banc.

October 29, 2013.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Maurice B. Graham , Gray, Ritter & Graham PC, St. Louis; Anthony E. Rothert and Grant R. Doty , ACLU of Eastern Missouri, St. Louis; Stephen Douglas Bonney , ACLU Foundation of Kansas and Western Missouri, Kansas City; Roger K. Heidenreich , SNR Denton US LLP, St. Louis; John A. Knight , LGBT & AIDS Project of the ACLU Foundation, Chicago, IL; and Joshua A. Block , LGBT & AIDS Project of the ACLU Foundation, New York, NY, for Glossip.

James R. Ward and Emily A. Dodge , Attorney General's Office, Jefferson City, for the State.

Michael J.F. Byrne , Law Firm of Haden & Byrne, Columbia, and Stephen Sanders , University of Michigan Law School, Ann Arbor , Mich., for group of Missouri law professors as friends of the Court.

Harold L. Lowenstein , Richard B. Scherrer , Thomas B. Weaver and Winston E. Calvert , Armstrong Teasdale LLP, St. Louis, for certain current and former elected officials as friends of the Court.

Juliet A. Cox and M. Courtney Koger , Kutak Rock , Kansas City; Christopher R. Cox , Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund Inc., Chicago, IL, for Law Enforcement Gays and Lesbians (LEGAL) International and its affiliated chapters as friends of the Court.

Denise D. Lieberman , St. Louis, for PROMO as friends of the Court.

PER CURIAM.

This case does not involve a challenge to the Missouri Constitution's ban on same-sex marriage. That is an issue for another day. Instead, Kelly Glossip, the same-sex partner of a deceased highway patrolman, presents a challenge to two statutes. The first provides benefits to a surviving spouse of a state highway patrolman who is killed in the line of duty. The second statute provides that the word "spouse" in the first statute shall refer only to a marriage...

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