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Article: New Jersey sides with gay couples
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- International Herald Tribune
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- October 27, 2006
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David W. Chen
International Herald Tribune
10-27-2006
Patrick Healy contributed reporting from New York, and David Kocieniewski and Laura Mansnerus from Trenton.* The highest court of New Jersey has ruled that gay couples are entitled to the same legal rights and financial benefits as heterosexual couples, but it split over whether their unions must be called marriage or could be known by another name, handing that question to the Legislature.In a decision Wednesday filled with bold and sweeping pronouncements about equality, the New Jersey Supreme Court gave the Democratic-controlled Legislature 180 days to either expand existing laws or come up with new ones to provide gay couples ...