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Partner for over 40 years and was given this sfral tax bill of over $363,000. and who hates taxes more than the republicans? and you take this woman who has contributed to society on so many leveltion, she was a huge ibm executive in the '60s. and here she is, having to pay taxes that she should not be paying. i mean, it's just ridiculous. and i think that she was like the perfect candidate to bring before the supreme court. and, also, you look at there and we always called it the religious right. the religious right and you see when gay people get married, same-sex couples get married they ru...

I was taxed $363,000 in federal estate tax that i would not have had to pay if i was married to a man named theo. even fp i had met theo just immediately before, married him and never lived with him before he died the tax would have been zero. overwhelmed with a sense of injustice and unfairness i decided to bring the lawsuit against the government to get my money back. i lucked out when robby caplynn a litigation partner walked into my life. paul has a proud tradition of representing clients including lgbt clients in a wide variety of probono matters. one of those outstanding cases is edith w...

Same-sex couples for 17 years. in the courtroom, a stifled squeal of joy from the audience when justice anthony kennedy announced his ruling. doma is a unconstitutional as a deprivation of the liberty of the person protected by the fifth amendment. it's up to states to regulate marriage, not the government. edie windsor brought the case to fight a huge tax bill when her wife died. >> on a practical level, i was taxed $363,000 in federal estate tax that i would not have been to pay if i had been married to a man. >> justice antonin scalia's dissert was scathing. when the court declared a consti...

Years. actually, after the oral argument, you mentioned the supreme court. they came down to 44 steps of the supreme court and one of her lawyers said this is one step for every year this couple has been together. so that means that, you know, when her wife passed away, they were next of kin, in the eyes of new york state. but they were legal strangers in the eyes of the federal government and she got hit with a $363,000 estate tax she would not have had to pay. >> she would have paid zero if she was married to a man. >> that is correct. and so now those kinds of penalties are gone, because th...

Breadth of this in many ways. but when you look, as we were talking about -- i'm sorry, let's go back to pete. not yet. as we look -- edie windsor's case and we look at the difference between $363,000 in taxes versus zero, give us those real-life examples of what -- we're going to wait. because we have another report. he's going to read the descent. pete williams now. >> reporter: refers to the prop 8 case. and it suggests -- let me make it very clear. we don't have the proposition 8 ruling yet. but based on what the descenters are saying in the doma case, it appears what everyone predicted is...