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10 Things LGBTQ People and People Living with HIV Need from the Biden-Harris Administration

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By Lambda Legal

January 20, 2021

Lambda Legal has filed 46 federal lawsuits against the Trump administration to beat back their efforts to harm LGBTQ people and everyone living with HIV.

See Also: Anti-LGBT Rulings, Laws and Amendments, Criminal Justice, Criminal Justice and Police Misconduct, Employment and Rights in the Workplace, Fair Courts Project, Health Care Fairness, HIV, Immigration, Marriage Relationships and Family Protections, Military, Racial Justice & Low Income Advocacy, Religious Exemptions, Reproductive Rights and Sexual Health, Teens & Young Adults, Transgender Rights, Youth and Schools, Youth in Out-of-Home Care
New Federal Contractors’ Rule Creates “Essentially Limitless” Exemption for Discrimination

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By Lambda Legal

December 7, 2020

The rule dramatically expands the ability of federal contractors to claim religious exemptions from federal nondiscrimination and equal employment opportunity laws and regulations.

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Lambda Legal Condemns Eleventh Circuit Ruling Striking Down Palm Beach County Conversion Therapy Ban

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By Kevin Jennings

November 20, 2020

The ruling reversed a lower court ruling and struck down local ordinances banning so-called conversion therapy on minors.

See Also: Anti-LGBT Rulings, Laws and Amendments, Youth and Schools, Florida
Fulton v. City of Philadelphia: The Supreme Court Considers the Religious License to Discriminate, Again

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By Currey Cook

November 5, 2020

On Wednesday’s fraught post-election morning, the Supreme Court, with newly installed Justice Amy Coney Barrett on the bench, heard argument in Fulton v. City of Philadelphia, a case with major implications for children in foster care, for LGBTQ people, and for anyone seeking government services.

See Also: Anti-LGBT Rulings, Laws and Amendments, Marriage Relationships and Family Protections, Religious Exemptions, Seniors, Youth in Out-of-Home Care
That Supreme Court Foster Care Case Is About More Than Just Kids

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By Karen Loewy

November 4, 2020

The Supreme Court will hear arguments in Fulton v. City of Philadelphia, a case that could have a profound impact on the delivery of taxpayer-funded government services across the country.

See Also: Anti-LGBT Rulings, Laws and Amendments, Marriage Relationships and Family Protections, Religious Exemptions, Seniors, Youth in Out-of-Home Care
Lambda Legal Sues Trump Administration Over Anti-Transgender Health Care Rule

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By Lambda Legal

June 22, 2020

Lawsuit challenging HHS's rule that purports to carve out LGBTQ people and other vulnerable populations from the protections of Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act.

See Also: Anti-LGBT Rulings, Laws and Amendments, Health Care Fairness, Transgender Rights
Mitch McConnell Is Putting Senators at Risk to Vote on Trump's Unqualified Nominees

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By

May 19, 2020

As most of us continue on with our social distancing as recommended by the CDC to help curb the spread of the increasingly deadly pandemic, the members of the United States Senate are back in Washington to do what Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell calls “the job we need to do for the American people.”

See Also: Anti-LGBT Rulings, Laws and Amendments, Coronavirus, Fair Courts Project
At the Supreme Court this Week: Religious Objections, Birth Control, and Trump’s No Good, Very Broad Rules

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By Jennifer C. Pizer

May 8, 2020

While every Supreme Court proceeding has drama, there’s extra excitement now.

See Also: Anti-LGBT Rulings, Laws and Amendments, Health Care Fairness, Law & Policy Project, Religious Exemptions, Reproductive Rights and Sexual Health
VICTORY: Lesbian Couple to Have Their Day in Court in Challenge to HHS and South Carolina Foster Care Policy

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By Lambda Legal

May 8, 2020

The couple was turned away by a government-funded foster care agency because they, as a lesbian couple, did not meet the agency’s religious criteria, which excludes prospective foster parents who are not evangelical Protestant Christian or who are same-sex couples of any faith.

See Also: Adoption and Parenting, Anti-LGBT Rulings, Laws and Amendments, Marriage Relationships and Family Protections, Youth in Out-of-Home Care, South Carolina
This Colorado Marketing and Design Firm Wants A Pass to Discriminate

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By Lambda Legal

April 30, 2020

Lambda Legal urged the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit to affirm a lower court that denied a Colorado marketing and design firm’s request that it be exempt from the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act (CADA) and instead be allowed to refuse website design services to same-sex couples because the owner claims it violates her religion to treat same- and different-sex couples equally.

See Also: Anti-LGBT Rulings, Laws and Amendments, Law & Policy Project, Religious Exemptions, Colorado

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10 Things LGBTQ People and People Living with HIV Need from the Biden-Harris Administration

ll_fb_tw_1.22_2b.jpg

New Federal Contractors’ Rule Creates “Essentially Limitless” Exemption for Discrimination

employee.jpg

Lambda Legal Condemns Eleventh Circuit Ruling Striking Down Palm Beach County Conversion Therapy Ban

sad_rainbow.jpg

Fulton v. City of Philadelphia: The Supreme Court Considers the Religious License to Discriminate, Again

scotus_2020.jpg

That Supreme Court Foster Care Case Is About More Than Just Kids

older_women.jpg

Lambda Legal Sues Trump Administration Over Anti-Transgender Health Care Rule

a_transgender_woman_in_a_hospital_gown_being_treated_by_a_doctor_a_transgender_man.jpg

Mitch McConnell Is Putting Senators at Risk to Vote on Trump's Unqualified Nominees

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At the Supreme Court this Week: Religious Objections, Birth Control, and Trump’s No Good, Very Broad Rules

intersectional_women_protest.jpg

VICTORY: Lesbian Couple to Have Their Day in Court in Challenge to HHS and South Carolina Foster Care Policy

family.jpg

This Colorado Marketing and Design Firm Wants A Pass to Discriminate

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