The parents of a deceased Cozen O'Connor lawyer are appealing the district court's decision to direct the benefits of the lawyer's profit-sharing plan to her wife, Jennifer Tobits.

Last month, following the U.S. Supreme Court's opinion in United States v. Windsor, U.S. District Judge C. Darnell Jones II of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania found that there is "no doubt" that Tobits is the surviving spouse of Sarah Ellyn Farley, which would mean that the benefits from Farley's federally-regulated profit-sharing plan would go to her.

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