{"id":2813,"date":"2007-08-29T11:58:28","date_gmt":"2007-08-29T19:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/migrator.rab.olt.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2007\/08\/ohio-win-for-partner-benefits\/"},"modified":"2007-08-29T11:58:28","modified_gmt":"2007-08-29T19:58:28","slug":"ohio-win-for-partner-benefits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2007\/08\/ohio-win-for-partner-benefits\/","title":{"rendered":"Ohio win for partner benefits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inside Higher Ed: <a href=\"http:\/\/insidehighered.com\/news\/2007\/08\/29\/qt\">Ohio win for partner benefits<\/a><\/p>\n<p>An Ohio appeals court has rejected a suit challenging Miami University\u2019s policy of offering domestic partner benefits to employees. The decision, which upheld a lower court\u2019s ruling, was not based on whether such benefits are legal or conflict with the state\u2019s ban on gay marriage, as the suit charged. Rather, the appeals court upheld a lower court\u2019s ruling that under Ohio law, the conservative lawmaker who sued lacked the standing to do so \u2014 either as a taxpayer or as a tuition-paying parent. The court ruled that taxpayers do not have a general right to challenge any decision by a public entity. As for the tuition-paying parent argument, the court noted that tuition funds are not used to pay for the benefits, and that any parent who disagrees with a university\u2019s policies is free to stop paying tuition. The decision and briefs are available on the Web site of Lambda Legal, a gay-rights organization that fought to defend the benefits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inside Higher Ed: Ohio win for partner benefits An Ohio appeals court has rejected a suit challenging Miami University\u2019s policy of offering domestic partner benefits to employees. The decision, which upheld a lower court\u2019s ruling, was not based on whether &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2007\/08\/ohio-win-for-partner-benefits\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2268],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-salaryeconomic-benefits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}