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US HHS Issues Revised Rule Striking Earlier Rule that Allowed Health Care Workers to Deny Care for Religious Beliefs

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By Lambda Legal

December 29, 2022

Trump era rule had been blocked by three separate federal courts, with one judge finding the rule “saturated with error” in the lawsuit filed by Lambda Legal, Americans United for Separation for Church and State, Center for Reproductive Rights, and County of Santa Clara.

See Also: Anti-LGBT Rulings, Laws and Amendments, Health Care Fairness, Religious Exemptions, United States
Lambda Legal Fought For My Right To Be A Foster Parent

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By Lambda Legal

December 6, 2022

By Kellee Terrell

See Also: Religious Exemptions, Youth in Out-of-Home Care, United States
Legal Advocates Urge Supreme Court to Reject Effort Seeking Unprecedented Exemption from Anti-Discrimination Law

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By Lambda Legal

August 19, 2022

LGBTQ civil and legal rights advocates today filed a friend-of-the-court brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to affirm long-standing precedent that preserves equal access to the commercial marketplace for all.

See Also: Marriage, Religious Exemptions, United States
Lambda Legal: Supreme Court Today Greenlights More Sectarian Prayer in Public Schools

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By Lambda Legal

June 27, 2022

“There is hardly anything more public than kneeling and praying on the 50-yard-line at the end of the game, nor more coercive than one’s coach leading the prayer.”

See Also: Religious Exemptions, United States
Lambda Legal Urges Supreme Court to Affirm Definitively that Religion Does Not Grant Businesses a License to Discriminate

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By Lambda Legal

February 22, 2022

Court grants review sought by Denver-based Anti-LGBT website designer. “It is time once and for all to put to rest these businesses’ attempts to undermine the civil rights of LGBTQ people in the name of religion.”

See Also: Religious Exemptions, Colorado
Oregon Court of Appeals Rules, Again, Against Anti-LGBT Portland-Area Bakery

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By Lambda Legal

January 26, 2022

“The court was right five years ago and is still right today. The Kleins’ faith does not give them a pass to ignore Oregon’s Public Accommodation Law.”

See Also: Anti-LGBT Rulings, Laws and Amendments, Marriage Relationships and Family Protections, Religious Exemptions, Oregon
Indiana Appeals Court Revives Fired Gay Catholic School Teacher’s Lawsuit against the Indianapolis Archdiocese

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By Lambda Legal

November 23, 2021

“Joshua Payne-Elliott just wants the chance to make his case in court. The Indiana Court of Appeals today ruled that he will get that opportunity.”

See Also: Religious Exemptions, Indiana
Lambda Legal and Americans United Reject Government Attempt to Duck LGBT Nondiscrimination Obligations

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By Lambda Legal

November 17, 2021

“This proposal doubles down on the discrimination and harm caused when the federal government first sanctioned and enabled USCCB’s refusal to allow Fatma and Bryn to apply to foster a refugee child…”

See Also: Adoption and Parenting, Religious Exemptions, United States
Lambda Legal and Americans United Sue U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services for Funding LGBTQ Discrimination in Refugee Foster Care Program

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By Lambda Legal

October 13, 2021

Case Filed on Behalf of Tennessee Woman Rejected by Government-Funded Agency Because She Is a Lesbian

See Also: Adoption and Parenting, Religious Exemptions, Youth in Out-of-Home Care, United States
Tenth Circuit Affirms Federal Trial Court Ruling Rejecting Anti-LGBTQ License to Discriminate

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By Lambda Legal

July 26, 2021

“The appellate court today saw through ADF’s transparent and continuing effort to secure a ‘free to discriminate’ card to exempt 303 Creative from abiding by the laws all other Colorado businesses are expected to follow.”

See Also: Religious Exemptions, Colorado

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US HHS Issues Revised Rule Striking Earlier Rule that Allowed Health Care Workers to Deny Care for Religious Beliefs

hhs_blog_post.jpg

Lambda Legal Fought For My Right To Be A Foster Parent

easter_v._hhs_-_kelly_easter.jpg

Legal Advocates Urge Supreme Court to Reject Effort Seeking Unprecedented Exemption from Anti-Discrimination Law

scotus-big.jpg

Lambda Legal: Supreme Court Today Greenlights More Sectarian Prayer in Public Schools

scotus_2020.jpg

Lambda Legal Urges Supreme Court to Affirm Definitively that Religion Does Not Grant Businesses a License to Discriminate

rainbow_flag_with_sunlight_cu.jpg

Oregon Court of Appeals Rules, Again, Against Anti-LGBT Portland-Area Bakery

shutterstock_1358209910.jpg

Indiana Appeals Court Revives Fired Gay Catholic School Teacher’s Lawsuit against the Indianapolis Archdiocese

shutterstock_141891325.jpg

Lambda Legal and Americans United Reject Government Attempt to Duck LGBT Nondiscrimination Obligations

bryn_and_fatma.png

Lambda Legal and Americans United Sue U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services for Funding LGBTQ Discrimination in Refugee Foster Care Program

easter_v._hhs_-_kelly_easter.jpg

Tenth Circuit Affirms Federal Trial Court Ruling Rejecting Anti-LGBTQ License to Discriminate

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