NY Appellate Says Out of State SSM Must Be Recognized by Employer

An appellate court ruled that a Canadian same-sex marriage must be recognized in New York at least for purposes of requiring a company to provide the same benefits to same-sex and opposite sex marriages. This is in line with then-Attorney General, now Governor Eliot Spitzer's, 2004 interpretation of state law that reached the same conclusion: that New York had to recognize out of state marriages for same-sex couples if they were valid where they were performed. More here.