Edie Windsor, 84, and Roberta Kaplan, 46, a partner and commercial litigator at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, have forged a unique relationship since Kaplan took up Windsor's challenge to the Defense of Marriage Act's definition of marriage as solely for heterosexuals for purposes of federal benefits.
June 27, 2013 at 12:00 AM
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Roberta "Robbie" Kaplan and her famous client Edith Windsor followed a familiar ritual Wednesday as they waited for the U.S. Supreme Court to act on Windsor's challenge to the Defense of Marriage Act.
Kaplan had Windsor over to her Greenwich Village apartment, where the two, as they had each day the court announced opinions, sat before a computer and watched a Supreme Court blog.
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