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Scott Fisher Wins Landmark Decision

Jaspan partner Scott Fisher obtained the first ruling by a New York court to refer directly to the New York Court of Appeals’ watershed decision in Hernandez v. Robles, 2006 WL 1835429. In that case, the Court of Appeals found that laws enacted over the past 100 years evinced intent by the Legislature to limit marriage to a union between a man and a woman. Funderburke v. Uniondale U.F.S.D. was decided several weeks later by the Nassau County Supreme Court. The Supreme Court in Funderburke denied summary judgment motion to a retired Uniondale School District teacher seeking to obtain spousal benefits for his same sex spouse, whom he had married in Ontario, Canada in 2004. Scott represented the Uniondale U.F.S.D.