News Notes: High Court Lets Stand San Francisco’s Domestic Partner Benefits Ordinance

The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to review a Ninth Circuit ruling upholding a San Francisco ordinance requiring contractors to provide domestic partner benefits. The case involved S.D. Myers Inc., an Ohio company that was denied a city contract because it refused to provide its employees with domestic partner benefits. The company unsuccessfully charged that the ordinance violated the U.S. Constitution’s interstate commerce clause.