You just can’t make this stuff up. From Lambda Legal, the gay ACLU:
Lambda Legal today filed a brief in federal district court in San Francisco on behalf of our client, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals staff lawyer Karen Golinski, who has been litigating to get equal health benefits for her wife since the fall of 2008. … (T)he Ninth Circuit’s personnel policies prohibit sexual orientation discrimination and require employees to file all discrimination complaints within the court’s dispute resolution process rather than going directly to court. Karen has followed that procedure diligently.
Ninth Circuit Chief Judge Alex Kozinski has issued four orders in Karen’s case directing that the federal courts’ Administrative Office process the paperwork to enroll Golinski’s wife in Golinski’s family insurance plan, but the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) consistently has blocked the enrollment. Kozinski repeatedly has ordered OPM to stop interfering with this Judicial Branch personnel matter, but OPM has both defied those orders and declined to participate in the court’s mandatory complaint process. Kozinski ruled last December that OPM’s persistent choice not to participate in the court’s process means the agency has waived its chance to object to his analysis and orders.
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