Mar 18, 2010
N.Y. Courts May End Civil Unions Performed Elsewhere, Appeals Panel Says
A New York court has the power to decide whether a civil union entered into outside the state should be dissolved, an appeals panel ruled Thursday. Citing the state’s “clear commitment to respect, uphold and protect parties to same-sex relationships,” a five-judge panel reversed a lower court that had dismissed for lack of jurisdiction a complaint by a woman seeking to end the civil union she entered into with her former partner in Vermont.