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(New York, October 11, 2012) - Today Lambda Legal filed a federal lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on behalf of Joseph Teevan against Westchester County Department of Public Safety, its Commissioner, George Longworth, and other high-level officers.  Against court orders, the police department released sealed information--including name, photo, town, and charges--about Teevan and at least 12 other men, who had been arrested weeks before in a sex sting operation, dubbed "Operation Overexposed," in Westchester's Saxon Woods Park.

(Anchorage, AK, September 24, 2012) - Lambda Legal filed a legal challenge today on behalf of Deborah Harris, whose same-sex partner, Kerry Fadely, was shot and killed one year ago by a disgruntled former employee whom Fadely had fired.  Under Alaska's workers' compensation law, the spouse of a person who dies from a work-related injury is eligible to receive survivor benefits, but same-sex couples are excluded from that legal protection.

(Sacramento, CA, August 29, 2012) - Late yesterday the California Assembly passed a bill prohibiting mental health providers in California from using dangerous efforts to change sexual orientation -- sometimes referred to as "ex-gay therapy," "conversion therapy" or "reparative therapy" -- with minors.  The initial Senate bill was authored by Senator Ted Lieu and co-sponsored by Lambda Legal, Equality California, the National Center for Lesbian Rights, Mental Health America of Northern California and Gaylesta.

(New York, August 14, 2012)—Yesterday, Lambda Legal joined the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, and other allied organizations to file a friend-of-the-court brief in Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, a case challenging the use of race in undergraduate admissions decisions. The brief argues that the University of Texas at Austin's use of race in undergraduate admissions decisions is lawful under the Equal Protection Clause. Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP is lead counsel on the brief.