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Lambda Legal and Advocates Urge Supreme Court to Strike Down Anti-LGBT Mississippi Law

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By Lambda Legal

October 10, 2017

See Also: Anti-LGBT Legislation and Amendments, Marriage, Religious Exemptions, Same-sex relationships, Transgender Rights, Mississippi
Lambda Legal Tells Supreme Court to Stop Trump's Muslim Ban

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September 18, 2017

Lambda Legal has added its name to a brief filed in the Supreme Court opposing President Trump’s “Muslim Ban.”

See Also: Immigration, Religious Exemptions
Lambda Legal & 27 LGBT Groups: Trump Nominee Stephen S. Schwartz Unfit To Serve On U.S. Court of Federal Claims

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By Lambda Legal

September 6, 2017

See Also: fair courts, Religious Exemptions
Do No Harm Act Re-Introduced in Congress

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By Jennifer C. Pizer

July 13, 2017

The Do No Harm Act would clarify that federal law does not permit the use of religion to discriminate.

See Also: Anti-LGBT Rulings, Laws and Amendments, Law & Policy Project, Religious Exemptions
Supreme Court OK’s Church Access to Public Playground Money; Lambda Legal Urges Vigilance

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By Camilla Taylor

June 26, 2017

The Court concluded that the state of Missouri must allow churches to apply for a playground resurfacing grant on the same terms as other entities.

See Also: Anti-LGBT Rulings, Laws and Amendments, Law & Policy Project, Religious Exemptions
Fifth Circuit Unleashes Anti-LGBT Mississippi Law, HB 1523

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By Lambda Legal

June 22, 2017

The U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the injunction against Mississippi House Bill 1523, the discriminatory anti-LGBT legislation challenged in Barber v. Bryant, the federal lawsuit brought by Mississippi civil rights attorney Robert McDuff, the Mississippi Center for Justice and Lambda Legal. The advocates will continue to fight this discriminatory law.

See Also: Anti-LGBT Rulings, Laws and Amendments, Religious Exemptions, Mississippi
Texas Senate Passes Damaging Child Welfare Bill: Lambda Legal Urges Governor to Veto

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By Lambda Legal

May 22, 2017

"Those agencies that won't commit to putting children's needs first, and to nondiscrimination as a core promise to children and families, must not be allowed to operate as agents of the government."

See Also: Adoption and Parenting, Law & Policy Project, Marriage Relationships and Family Protections, Religious Exemptions, Same-sex relationships, Teens & Young Adults, Youth in Out-of-Home Care, Texas
What Donald Trump's Religious Liberty Executive Order Does – and Doesn’t Do – and Why You Should Still Be Worried

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May 5, 2017

With yesteday’s Executive Order, Donald Trump handed out razors to every anti-LGBTQ zealot that he has put in place in his administration.

See Also: Anti-LGBT Rulings, Laws and Amendments, Religious Exemptions, Religiously Motivated Discrimination, Resistance
An Oregon Judge Refused to Marry Same-Sex Couples. We're Fighting Back.

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By Lambda Legal

May 2, 2017

Judge Day directed court staff to use the court record system to investigate whether couples wishing to marry were of the same sex and, if so, to represent that he was unavailable, rather than unwilling, to marry them.

See Also: Fair Courts Project, Law & Policy Project, Marriage, Religious Exemptions, Same-sex relationships, Oregon
Today We Were in Court at the 5th Circuit Fighting Mississippi's Anti-LGBT Law

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By Lambda Legal

April 3, 2017

See Also: Marriage Relationships and Family Protections, Religious Exemptions, Stand Up to Defeat DOMA!, Mississippi

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