New Jersey courts back same-sex unions.

The courts decided yesterday that gay couples should have the same legal and financial rights as hetero-couples but couldn’t decide if it should be called marriage, handing that decision to the state legislature.

In a decision 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 benefits including tuition assistance, survivors’ benefits under workers’ compensation laws and spousal privilege in criminal trials.
Four justices said that lawmakers, not the court, should decide whether to call those arrangements a marriage, a civil union or something else, while three dissenters said the state Constitution demanded that gay couples, like their heterosexual counterparts, be allowed to wed.

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What does this mean for policy change? Scott at Lawyers, Guns and Money breaks it down.