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Federal Court Allows Lambda Legal to Proceed in Antigay Harassment Lawsuit Against Upstate New York School District

(Philadelphia, NY, March 29, 2011)—Today, the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York ruled that discrimination claims filed against Indian River Central School District by Lambda Legal and Kirkland & Ellis LLP, on behalf of Charlie Pratt, who suffered sexist and antigay harassment at school, will proceed.

Lambda Legal Will Continue to Defend Wisconsin's Domestic Partnership Law

(Chicago, March 23, 2011)—In response to the news that Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker has terminated legal firm Cullen, Weston, Pines & Bach in the case Appling v. Doyle, Lambda Legal issued the following statement from Christopher Clark, Senior Staff Attorney in the Midwest Regional Office in Chicago:

Lambda Legal: Introduction of Respect for Marriage Act a Watershed Moment

In response to today's introduction in the U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives of the Respect for Marriage Act, which would repeal the 1996 so-called Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), Lambda Legal National Marriage Project Director Jennifer C. Pizer issued the following statement.

Judge Dismisses Federal Family Benefits Case, Invites Lambda Legal to File New DOMA Complaint

(San Francisco, March 16, 2011)—A federal judge has granted a motion by government attorneys to dismiss Lambda Legal's lawsuit on behalf of a federal court employee seeking spousal health benefits for her wife, but invited the organization to file an amended complaint directly challenging the constitutionality of the so-called Defense of Marriage Act, or DOMA.

Maryland House Fails to Vote on Marriage Equality Bill: Lambda Legal Says, "This Is Not the End."

Today, the Maryland House re-committed back to committee the marriage equality bill that had previously been approved by the Senate, delaying equality to Maryland's same-sex couples.

LGBT Groups Condemn Anti-Muslim Hearings in the U.S. House of Representatives

Today, the National Center for Lesbian Rights, Equality California, National Center for Transgender Equality, Transgender Law Center, Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders, and Lambda Legal join together to express outrage over U.S. Representative Peter King's ongoing "Muslim Radicalization" hearings—the first of which was held yesterday—in the House of Representatives.

Lambda Legal Supports Federal Student Non-Discrimination Act Re-Introduced Today

Today, upon the re-introduction of the Student Non-Discrimination Act in Congress, Lambda Legal released the following statement by Hayley Gorenberg, Deputy Legal Director of Lambda Legal

DOMA Shift Leaves Government Out of Excuses, Lambda Legal, Morrison & Foerster Inform Judge

Lambda Legal and Morrison & Foerster LLP today told a federal judge that government attorneys have shown they have no further arguments and therefore no further legal barrier exists to a married lesbian federal employee receiving spousal health benefits already provided to her heterosexual co-workers. U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) attorneys had argued that, among other reasons, the so-called Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) prohibits the employer-provided medical insurance that Karen Golinski had requested for her spouse, Amy Cunninghis. Lambda Legal and Morrison & Foerster represent Golinski, a 19-year-employee of the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Lambda Legal, NCLR, Equality California and ACLU-NC File Amicus Brief in Federal Challenge to Proposition 8 Asking Court to Lift Stay

(San Francisco, CA, March 1, 2011)—Today, the National Center for Lesbian Rights, Equality California, American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California, and Lambda Legal jointly filed an amicus brief in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals asking the court to lift the temporary stay in the federal court challenge to Proposition 8.

DOMA Shift Not Reflected in Latest Government Filing in Lambda Legal's Golinski v. OPM

(San Francisco, February 28, 2011) — The U.S. Department of Justice
has announced that it will continue to deny spousal health insurance
benefits to a lesbian federal employee, in spite of last week’s
announcement that Attorney General Eric Holder has determined that the
so-called Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) is unconstitutional and that
DOJ therefore will no longer defend it against court challenges.

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