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Sept. 12, 2017, 8:36 PM UTC

Edith Windsor, Plaintiff in Same-Sex Marriage Ruling, Dies at 88

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By Laurence Arnold, Bloomberg News

Edith Windsor, the Manhattan resident whose love affair formed the basis for the 2013 Supreme Court decision establishing federal rights for same-sex married couples, has died. She was 88.

She died on Tuesday in Manhattan, the New York Times reported, citing her wife, Judith Kasen-Windsor, whom she married in 2016.

United States v. Windsor, the court case that struck down part of a law denying federal benefits for same-sex spouses, stemmed from Windsor’s four-decade relationship with Thea Spyer and the $363,000 in estate taxes Windsor owed at Spyer’s death.

The tax bill was due because, ...

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