United States Seventh Circuit

School Board's policy of extending domestic-partner benefits to teachers who live together with a "sole domestic partner" of the same sex is constitutional, as it is rationally based upon public policy and economic reasons.

Appellate Information

• Argued 01/08/2001
• Decided 05/15/2001
• Published 05/15/2001

Judges

• POSNER, Circuit Judge., Before POSNER, MANION, and KANNE, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Richard P. Campbell (argued), Campbell & Divencenzo, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellant., Patricia M. Logue, Lambda Legal Defense & Educ. Fund, Chicago, IL, for Amicus Curiae.


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