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Tennessee Senate Must Reject Effort to Deny Children Loving Families

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By Lambda Legal

April 25, 2019

The Tennessee State Senate is soon to vote on Tennessee SB 1304, a license-to-discriminate bill that allows taxpayer-funded child welfare agencies to reject foster or adoptive parents based upon the agency’s religious beliefs.

See Also: Adoption and Parenting, Anti-LGBT Laws Rulings and Amendments, Religious Exemptions, Teens & Young Adults, Youth in Out-of-Home Care, Tennessee
Lambda Legal Sues Tennessee Over Anti-Transgender Birth Certificate Policy

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By Lambda Legal

April 23, 2019

Today Lambda Legal filed a federal lawsuit challenging Tennessee’s policy prohibiting transgender people born in Tennessee from correcting the gender marker on their birth certificates.

See Also: Transgender Rights, Tennessee
LGBT Advocates Urge District Court Not to Let States Game the System

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By Lambda Legal

July 28, 2016

Five leading national civil and LGBT rights organizations late yesterday filed an amicus (friend-of-the-court) brief in the multi-state lawsuit challenging the Obama administration’s guidance regarding public school districts’ responsibility to allow transgender students to use the same restrooms as other students.

See Also: Anti-LGBT Rulings, Laws and Amendments, Law & Policy Project, Transgender Rights, Alabama, Arizona, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, West Virginia, Wisconsin
We Are Better Than This, Tennessee

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By Gregory R. Nevins

April 6, 2016

When you’re from Tennessee, you learn a way of thinking and talking about the, shall we say, less inspiring chapters of your state’s history.

See Also: Religiously Motivated Discrimination, Tennessee
Supreme Court Schedules Marriage Case Arguments for April 28

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March 5, 2015

The U.S. Supreme Court today announced it has scheduled argument for the marriage cases on Tuesday, April 28, at 10:00am.

See Also: Marriage, Same-sex relationships, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, Tennessee
What Happened at the Supreme Court?

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January 17, 2015

This is it! We are headed to the U.S. Supreme Court to argue for the freedom to marry!

See Also: Marriage, Same-sex relationships, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, Tennessee
Supreme Court Will Hear Ohio Marriage Cases Brought by Lambda Legal, ACLU and Gerhardstein & Branch

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By Lambda Legal

January 16, 2015

All cases in the Sixth Circuit including those from Michigan, Kentucky and Tennessee will be heard.

See Also: Marriage, Marriage at the Supreme Court, Same-sex relationships, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, Tennessee
Supreme Court Grants Review in Lambda Legal Marriage Case

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By Lambda Legal

January 16, 2015

“After years of struggle and the dedicated work of thousands across the movement, we are finally within sight of the day when same-sex couples across the country will be able to share equally in the joys, protections and responsibilities of marriage.”

See Also: Marriage, Same-sex relationships, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, Tennessee
Ohio Families to Petition Supreme Court for Review of Discriminatory Sixth Circuit Ruling

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By Lambda Legal

November 7, 2014

Yesterday, over a strenuous dissent, two Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals judges upheld discriminatory bans on marriage rights for same-sex couples in Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky and Tennessee, becoming the first federal circuit court after the Supreme Court’s watershed 2013 Windsor ruling to uphold such bans and departing from recent decisions from the 4th, 7th, 9th and 10th Circuits.

See Also: Marriage, Same-sex relationships, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, Tennessee
Sixth Circuit Upholds Discriminatory Bans on Marriage Rights for Same-Sex Couples in Four States

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By Lambda Legal

November 6, 2014

Today the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld as constitutional bans on marriage rights for same-sex couples in Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky and Tennessee, becoming the first federal circuit court after the Supreme Court’s watershed 2013 Windsor ruling to uphold such bans and departing from recent decisions from the 4th, 7th, 9th and 10th Circuits.

See Also: Marriage, Same-sex relationships, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, Tennessee

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