(January 7, 2016, 1:05 PM EST) -- OAKLAND, Calif. — The widow of a woman who died of cancer after a 26-year career with FedEx Corp. can pursue a claim alleging that FedEx violated the Employee Retirement Income Security Act by denying the widow benefits under her partner’s pension plan based on the plan’s definition of spouse as “a person of the opposite sex who is a husband or wife,” a California federal judge held Jan. 4 (Stacey Schuett v. FedEx Corporation, et al., No. 15-cv-0189, N.D. Calif.; 2016 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 244)....