Cornell v. Hamilton

OPINION

KIRSCH, Judge.

Jana Cornell appeals the trial court’s decision to grant the motion for summary judgment filed by John Hamilton and D. Sue Roberson (“the State”) and to deny her motion for summary judgment in her suit against them. She raises the following issue for review:

Whether the State’s funeral leave policy, under which an employee may be granted funeral leave upon the death of a qualified relative, the death of a spouse’s qualified relative, or the death of a member of an employee’s household, but homosexuals, who are prohibited by law from marrying their domestic partners, are…