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Fair and impartial courts are a cornerstone of our democracy. The Fair Courts Project provides tools and information to counter harmful attacks on the courts that threaten LGBT and HIV-related civil rights and jeopardize the ability of our courts to make decisions based on constitutional and legal principles—not politics or popular opinion.

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 America's courts are under attack. What if there was a superhero to protect them? Well, now there is! Meet Super Judge, your gavel-toting superhero!
Justice for Sale
 In the last decade, pro-business and evangelical Christian groups have flooded judicial elections with cash—and undermined the independence of state courts. This report from The American Prospect is a collaboration of Dēmos and Lambda Legal's Fair Courts Project.
What Happened in Iowa
 Background and analysis of the 2010 judicial retention election that ousted three Supreme Court Justices who ruled in favor of marriage equality in the Varnum case.
Why Federal Courts Matter to the LGBT Community
 Our democracy is under attack. This country depends upon the shared balance of power between three co-equal branches of government — executive, legislative and judicial. An attack on the judiciary is an attack on all three.
5/27/2009
Hollingsworth v. Perry (formerly known as Perry v. Brown and Perry v. Schwarzenegger)
A federal case challenging California's discriminatory ballot measure, Prop 8, which eliminated same-sex couples' right to marry in that state.
1/17/2008
Turner v. White
Case seeking access to legal proceedings for a name change and waiver of fees on behalf of transgender woman
8/1/2006
Florida Family Policy Council v. Freeman
(Amicus) Case arguing in favor of the "recusal canon" to maintain fair and impartial judges
In re Judge Connie Glenn Wilkerson
Complaint arguing that an antigay judge in Mississippi violated the state's Code of Judicial Conduct
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