UMass Amherst Professor Lee Badgett Can Comment on California Supreme Court Ruling on Gay Marriage

May 15, 2008

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Lee Badgett 413/545-3162 or 310/904-9761 (cell)

Submitted expert testimony that was cited in the decision

AMHERST, Mass. – M.V. Lee Badgett, professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts and an expert on the economic characteristics of same-sex couples, can comment on the California Supreme Court’s decision today overturning a ban on same-sex marriage. Badgett co-authored an amicus brief in support of gay marriage that was cited several times in the oral arguments by the chief justice describing the demographic and economic characteristics of same-sex couples in California.

Badgett is director of the Center for Public Policy and Administration at UMass Amherst and research director for the Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation Law & Public Policy at the UCLA School of Law.

Her book, Money, Myths, and Change: The Economic Lives of Lesbians and Gay Men presents ground-breaking work on sexual orientation discrimination and family policy.

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