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Lambda Legal Urges Investigation into Sexual Assaults of Incarcerated LGBT People in Texas

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By Lambda Legal

July 28, 2016

Following the state of Texas’s latest assurance to the U.S. Department of Justice that it will work towards fully complying with Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) in future years, Lambda Legal today sent a letter to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) PREA Ombudsman, urging investigations into several reports of sexual assault and abuse against LGBT people in Texas’s prison system.

See Also: Criminal Justice, Transgender Rights, Texas
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
Lambda Legal Mourns Vicious Attack in Dallas

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By Lambda Legal

July 8, 2016

After the shooting deaths of Dallas Police Officers and DART officers at a peaceful protest last night, Lambda Legal issued a statement from Roger Poindexter, South Central Regional Office Director and National Board of Directors Co-chair Tracey Guyot-Wallace, both based in Dallas.

See Also: Criminal Justice, Criminal Justice and Police Misconduct, Texas
Supreme Court Upholds Use of Race in U. of Texas Admissions, Lambda Legal Applauds

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June 23, 2016

Today, the Supreme Court, voting 4-3, ruled that University of Texas at Austin (UT)'s admissions process meets the constitutional standard for use of race in undergraduate admissions decisions.

See Also: Racial Justice and Low-Income Advocacy, Texas
Lambda Legal Weighs Options as Texas and Other States Sue Federal Government for Protecting Transgender People

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By Paul D. Castillo

May 25, 2016

Today, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced that Texas and other states and officials have filed a lawsuit challenging the Obama Administration’s recently released guidance to schools across the country clarifying that federal law already prohibits discrimination against students based on gender identity.

See Also: Anti-LGBT Rulings, Laws and Amendments, Law & Policy Project, Texas
Federal Court Orders Texas Prison Chief to Remain Defendant in Transgender Woman’s Abuse Case

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By Lambda Legal

March 14, 2016

Today, a U.S. District Court rejected an attempt to remove Brad Livingston, executive director of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ), as a defendant in Zollicoffer v.

See Also: Criminal Justice and Police Misconduct, Passion Star, PREA, Racial Justice and Low-Income Advocacy, Transgender Rights, Texas
What Happened at the Supreme Court Arguments in the Texas Abortion Case

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By Camilla Taylor

March 3, 2016

Lambda Legal filed a friend-of-the-court brief in this case, arguing that landmark decisions vindicating the rights of LGBT people compel the conclusion that the constitutional right to choose to have an abortion finds protection under the Equal Protection Clause as well as the Due Process Clause of the federal Constitution.

See Also: Texas
Lambda Legal Files Brief Urging U.S. Supreme Court to Protect Access to Abortion

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By Lambda Legal

January 5, 2016

Lambda Legal filed a friend-of-the-court brief with the U.S. Supreme Court yesterday in support of the Texas abortion clinics, physicians who perform abortions and Texas women who need abortion services, who are challenging Texas’s unduly burdensome abortion regulations in Whole Woman’s Health v. Cole.

See Also: Health Care Fairness, Law & Policy Project, Reproductive Rights and Sexual Health, Texas
What Happened Today at the Supreme Court

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December 9, 2015

Attending the argument in the Supreme Court today in Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, I was struck with a sense of deja vu.

See Also: U.S. Supreme Court, Texas
Houston Voters Reject Equal Rights Ordinance

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By Lambda Legal

November 3, 2015

Today, Houston voters went to the polls and rejected the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance (HERO), defeating a citywide ordinance that would have prohibited discrimination in employment, housing and public accommodation on the basis of race, age, gender, pregnancy, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or military status.

See Also: HERO, Texas, Texas