The Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) is a federal law designed to give states the right to refuse recognition of a same-sex marriage approved by another state. It also defines marriage as a union ...

Chris discusses the Supreme Court's hearings on the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage act and debates whether or not hospitals should hire smokers. He talks to Adrian Benepe from the ...

The Defense of Marriage Act, or DOMA, is a law that, for the purposes of the federal government, defines marriage as the union between one man and one woman.

The author of the federal Defense of Marriage Act now thinks it's time for his law to get the boot -- but for political reasons, not in support of gays.

Earlier this year, President Obama announced that his administration would no longer defend the so-called "Defense of Marriage Act" in federal court. This discriminatory law prohibits the federal ...

Roberta Kaplan talked about her experience arguing against the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) before the U.S. Supreme Court. Ms. Kaplan's client in the DOMA case was Edith Windsor, who sued the ...

President Obama has decided that his administration will no longer defend the Defense of Marriage Act, the federal law that defines marriage as between one man and one woman. NPR legal affairs ...

Because of the Defense of Marriage Act, same-sex military spouses are not eligible for nearly 100 spousal benefits freely available to other military spouses. This inequality harms our military ...

The Defense of Marriage Act of 1996 is best seen, therefore, not as a measure singularly focused on a cultural debate occasioned by a state court decision, but as a response embedded within a ...

The Defense of Marriage Act, writes columnist Ellen Goodman, is an out-of-date law that enforces an identity crisis: eligible for a pension, health care, family leave in the eyes of some states ...

Boston Appeals Court: Defense Of Marriage Act Unconstitutional The 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston said the Defense of Marriage Act discriminates against married same-sex couples by ...

The Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) is a federal law designed to give states the right to refuse recognition of a same-sex marriage approved by another state.