Monday, October 31, 2011

The Domestic Partner Benefits Ban Plan

AnnArbor.com has an essential story on MI's proposed Domestic Partner Benefits Ban, and its effects upon U-M and other public universities. Needless to say it would be terrible for the community if this went through.

2 comments:

  1. IF the Senate makes the mistake of letting it go to the floor; IF it then passes; and IF the Governor does not veto it; I can almost guarantee the state universities & PCSUM would take it to court.

    Considering that the U (including UMHS) now gets 6% of its revenue from the state (http://www.finops.umich.edu/reports/2010/pdf/UMfinrepFY10hr.pdf) I could see it finally going private, in the (highly unlikely, IMO) event it exhausted all other avenues of appeal on this issue.

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  2. I'm not sure if you're saying that you don't think this measure has a low likelihood of becoming law. Given the anti-LGBTQ legislative/judicial agenda of the state courts (e.g. second-parent adoptions) I am fairly pessimistic about the "if"s being avoided. As for U-M going private, I don't think that this issue is going to be enough to justify the U's going through the enormous transaction costs of going public to private. But maybe I'm wrong.

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