The federal Defense of Marriage Act is rife with “irrationality” that disadvantages same-sex couples in concrete ways, such as imposing tax penalties, and in more subtle ways that its drafters never envisioned, said Roberta Kaplan, a partner at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison who will argue for the statute’s invalidation before the U.S. Supreme Court in March.
Kaplan made her comments yesterday during a session on the future of DOMA at the New York State Bar Association’s annual meeting at the Hilton New York.
Roberta Kaplan at yesterday’s NYSBA meeting
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