VERMONT AUTHOR (Chief Justice L. Jeffrey Amestoy) OF SAME-SEX RULING BRINGING HIS CASE to New Jersey!! Vermont Chief Justice L. Jeffrey Amestoy was in the vanguard of the movement to give people the right to wed someone of the same sex or at least provide them all the rights of married couples. That was the essence of his controversial ruling in 1999. The legislature there responded with a law providing for civil unions, considered far stronger than the domestic partnership statute enacted here last month. Amestoy isn't shy about discussing and expanding on his thinking behind the ruling and...