Poster Family

Local domestic partners sue the state

by Eve Silberman

posted 5/7/2012

In January, Ann Arbor teacher Peter Ways, local therapist Joe Breakey, and their daughter, Aliza Breakey-Ways, became a poster family for domestic partner benefits. The ACLU is representing them and three other Michigan couples (including another from Ann Arbor, Theresa Bassett and Carol Kennedy) in a suit challenging a new state law that restricts public

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