SEATTLE, August 28, 2017 – Lambda Legal and OutServe-SLDN today filed a federal lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the Trump administration’s ban on military service by transgender individuals. The lawsuit—brought in response to President Trump’s formal issuance of directions to military authorities late Friday—was filed on behalf of two individuals who seek to join the […]
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US Supreme Court Smacks Down Attempt to Deny Accurate Birth Certificates to Same-Sex Parents in Arkansas
New York, NY, June 26, 2017 – Today, the U.S. Supreme Court, in a summary reversal, overturned a decision of the Arkansas Supreme Court, in Pavan v. Smith, saying loud and clear that states may not treat same-sex married couples differently than other married couples, including when it comes to issuing two-parent birth certificates to […]
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Lambda Legal Sues MS Funeral Home for Refusing to Transport and Cremate Body of Gay Man
PICAYUNE, MS, May 2, 2017 – Lambda Legal today announced it has joined a lawsuit against a Picayune, MS, funeral home for refusing to provide any service for Robert Huskey after his death, leaving his 82-year-old husband, Jack Zawadski, desperate to make other arrangements in the hours after his beloved spouse’s passing. The suit seeks […]
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Nearly All 50 States Failing Transgender, Gender-Expansive and Gender-Nonconforming (TGNC) Youth
NEW YORK, NY, April 24, 2017 – A new report published today, Safe Havens: Closing the Gap Between Recommend Practice and Reality for Transgender and Gender-Expansive Youth in Out-of-Home Care, offers the first comprehensive analysis of the troubling lack of explicit laws and policies in most states to protect transgender, gender expansive and gender non-conforming […]
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Landmark Federal Court Decision Extends Workplace Discrimination Protections to Lesbian and Gay People
Chicago, IL, April 4, 2017 –In a groundbreaking, 8-3 decision, the full Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation violates federal civil rights law. The court found that such discrimination is a form of sex discrimination in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, […]
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Sen. Wiener, Assemblymember Gloria Announce Bill to Modernize CA’s Discriminatory HIV Criminalization Laws
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Feb. 6, 2017 – Today, Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) and Assemblymember Todd Gloria (D-San Diego) introduced a bill to modernize laws that criminalize and stigmatize people living with HIV. Assemblymember David Chiu is also a co-author of the bill. SB 239 would amend California’s HIV criminalization laws, enacted in the 1980s […]
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Lambda Legal Fights in Federal Court for Math Instructor Fired for Being Gay
CHICAGO, IL, Nov. 30, 2016 – Today, the full 11-member Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments in the case of Lambda Legal client, Kimberly Hively, a lesbian math teacher who was repeatedly denied promotions and ultimately fired from her job after it became known that she was a lesbian. The case, Hively v. Ivy […]