Pro Bono Honors
From Of Counsel, vol 4, no 3
Published 05/29/08
In this celebration of the fifth anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Lawrence v. Texas, Lambda Legal honors all of the organizations, law firms, professors, and individuals who submitted amicus briefs in support of the petitioners at the Supreme Court level.
The signers are as follows:
Civil Rights Brief:
AFL-CIO
Alliance for Full Acceptance
Anti-Defamation League
Cimarron Foundation of Oklahoma
Community Center of Idaho
Equality Alabama
Equality Florida
Equality Mississippi
Equality Virginia
Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders
Gay & Lesbians Alliance Against Defamation
Gay & Lesbian Community Center of Utah
Human Rights Campaign
Kansas Unity and Pride Association
Louisiana Electorate of Gays and Lesbians
Mexican-American Legal Defense & Education Fund
National Center for Lesbian Rights
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
North Carolina Gay & Lesbian Attorneys
Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays
People for the American Way Foundation
Pride at Work
PROMO
Puerto-Rican Legal Defense & Education Fund
Safeguarding American Values for Everyone
Society of American Law Teachers
South Carolina Gay & Lesbian Pride Movement
Soulforce
Stonewall Law Association of Greater Houston
Your Family, Friends, and Neighbors
Law Firms on the Civil Rights Brief:
O'Melveny & Myers, L.L.P.
(New York, NY and Washington, D.C. offices)
Religious Groups Brief:
Affirmation: Gay and Lesbian Mormons
Affirmation: United Methodists for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgendered Concerns
The Al-Fatiha Foundation
The Alliance of Baptists
American Friends Service Committee
The American Jewish Committee
The Association of Welcoming and Affirming Baptists
Axios USA, Inc.
Brethren/Mennonite Council for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Interests
Commission on Social Action of Reform Judaism (representing the UAHC and the CCAR)
Disciples Justice Action Network
Dignity USA
The Most Rev. Frank T. Griswold, III, Presiding Bishop of Episcopal Church
Equal Partners in Faith
Fellowship of Reconciling Pentecostals International
The Gay, Lesbian, and Affirming Disciples Alliance, Inc.
Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America
Integrity, Inc.
The Interfaith Alliance
Lutherans Concerned/North America
The Methodist Federation for Social Action
More Light Presbyterians
Northaven United Methodist Church
Reconciling Ministries Network
Seventh-Day Adventist Kinship International, Inc.
The Unitarian Universalist Association
The General Synod of the United Church of Christ
The Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches
The World Congress of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Jews: Keshet Ga'avah
Law Firm on the Religious Groups Brief:
Covington & Burling LLP
(Washington, D.C. office)
Libertarian Briefs:
CATO Institute
Institute for Justice
Public Health Brief:
AIDS Action
American Orthopsychiatric Association
American Public Health Association
Association of Nurses in AIDS Care
National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors
National Minority AIDS Council
National Mental Health Association
The Whitman-Walker Clinic
Law Firm on Public Health Brief:
Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel, L.L.P. (New York, NY office)
Mental Health Groups Brief:
American Psychiatric Association
American Psychological Association
National Association of Social Workers
Texas Chapter of National Association of Social Workers
Law Firm on Mental Health Groups Brief:
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP
(formerly Wilmer, Cutler, & Pickering) (Washington, D.C. office)
Farr & Taranto (Washington, D.C.office)
Historians' Brief:
George Chauncey
Nancy F. Cott
John D'Emilio
Estelle B. Freedman
Thomas C. Holt
John Howard
Lynn Hunt
Mark D. Jordan
Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy
Linda P. Kerber
Law Firm on Historians' Brief:
Robbins, Russell, Englert, Orseck & Untereiner, L.L.P.
(Washington, D.C. office)
International Law Brief:
Mary Robinson
Amnesty International USA
Human Rights First (formerly The Lawyers Committee for Human Rights)
Human Rights Watch
InterRights
The Advocates for Human Rights (formerly Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights)
Law Firms and Clinics on International Law Brief:
School of Law King's College London
United Kingdom Simpson Thatcher & Bartlett LLP
(New York, NY office)
International Human Rights Clinic
Yale Law School American Bar Association Brief:
American Bar Association (Chicago, IL office)
Law Firm on American Bar Association Brief:
Morrison & Foerster LLP (Washington, D.C. office)
LGBT Bar Association Brief:
The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund
The Bay Area Lawyers for Individual Freedom
The Bay Area Transgender Lawyers' Association
Fair Wisconsin (formerly Action Wisconsin)
GAYLAW
Gay and Lesbian Lawyers Association of South Florida
Gay and Lesbian Lawyers of Philadelphia
The Lesbian and Gay Law Association of Los Angeles
The Lesbian and Gay Bar Association of Chicago
The Massachusetts Lesbian and Gay Bar Association
National Lesbian and Gay Law Association
The Northwest Women's Law Center
The Oregon Gay and Lesbian Law Association
The Stonewall Bar Association
The Tom Homann Law Association of San Diego
The Washington Lesbian and Gay Legal Society
Law Firms on the LGBT Bar Association Brief:
Debevoise & Plimpton LLP
(New York, NYoffice)
Chai Feldblum
Counsel of Record
(Washington, D.C.)
Log Cabin Republican Briefs:
Liberty Education Forum
Log Cabin Republicans
Law Firm on the Log Cabin Republican Briefs:
White & Case LLP
(New York, NY and Los Angeles, CA offices)
Law Professors’ Brief:
Bruce A. Ackerman
Jack M. Balkin
Derrick A. Bell, Jr.
Paul Brest
Evan Caminker
Erwin Chemerinsky
David D. Cole
David B. Cruz
Thomas C. Grey
Pamela S. Karlan
Kenneth L. Karst
Andrew Koppelman
Sanford Levinson
Frank Michelman
William B. Rubenstein
Steven H. Shiffrin
Geoffrey R. Stone
Kenji Yoshino
Lawyers on Law Professors’ Brief:
Pamela S. Karlan
(Stanford, CA)
William B. Rubenstein
(Los Angeles, CA )
Republican Unity Coalition Brief:
Republican Unity Coalition Honorable Alan K. Simpson
Lawyer on the Republican Unity Coalition Brief:
Erik S. Jaffe, P.C.
(Washington, D.C.)
American Civil Liberties Union Brief: ACLU
ACLU of Texas
Lawyers and offices on the ACLU Brief:
Laurence Tribe
(Cambridge, MA)
William Clark Harrell ACLU of Texas
(Austin, TX)
ACLU Foundation, Inc.
(New York, NY)
NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund Brief:
Legal Momentum (formerly NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund)
Law Firms and offices on the NOW Brief:
Legal Momentum (formerly NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund) (New York, NY office)
Irell & Manella L.L.P. (Los Angeles, CA office
