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Lambda Legal, Americans United, the Center for Reproductive Rights, and the County of Santa Clara Ask Court for Immediate Halt to Implementation of Denial of Care Rule

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By Lambda Legal

June 12, 2019

The rule is so overbroad, unworkable, and sweeping in its targeting of LGBT people and women for denials of health care that it will harm patients.

See Also: Anti-LGBT Rulings, Laws and Amendments, Health Care Fairness
Lambda Legal Celebrates Key Victory Reaffirming LGBT Rights in Flower Shop Discrimination Case

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By Lambda Legal

June 6, 2019

The Washington Supreme Court today unanimously reaffirmed its February 2017 ruling that a Richland, WA, florist had violated the Washington Law Against Discrimination (WLAD) when she refused to sell flowers to a same-sex couple for their wedding.

See Also: Anti-LGBT Laws Rulings and Amendments, Marriage, Religious Exemptions, Washington
Every Child Deserves a Family Act Introduced in Congress

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By Cathren Cohen

June 5, 2019

Eliminating discrimination against relatives and those seeking to foster and adopt will allow more children to have loving homes while in foster care.

See Also: Adoption and Parenting, Youth in Out-of-Home Care
California District Court Grants Judgment to HIV+ Man Denied Haircut at Los Angeles Barbershop

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By Lambda Legal

June 4, 2019

See Also: HIV, California
LGBT Advocates Sue Trump HHS and South Carolina for Discriminating Against Same-Sex Foster Parents

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By Lambda Legal

May 30, 2019

Lambda Legal, the ACLU, ACLU of South Carolina, and South Carolina Equality Coalition are suing the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the state of South Carolina on behalf of a married lesbian couple, Eden Rogers and Brandy Welch, who were turned away by a government-funded foster care agency for failing to meet the agency’s religious criteria, which exclude prospective foster parents who are not evangelical Protestant Christian or who are same-sex couples of any faith.

See Also: Anti-LGBT Rulings, Laws and Amendments, Marriage Relationships and Family Protections, Religious Exemptions, Youth in Out-of-Home Care, South Carolina
Lambda Legal, Americans United and Center for Reproductive Rights Sue Trump Administration to Block Denial of Care Rule

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By Lambda Legal

May 28, 2019

Today, Lambda Legal, Americans United for Separation of Church and State and the Center for Reproductive Rights filed a lawsuit challenging the “Denial of Care” Rule issued earlier this month by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

See Also: Anti-LGBT Rulings, Laws and Amendments, Health Care Fairness, HIV, Transgender Rights
Lambda Legal: Trump Administration Assault on LGBT People Continues with New ACA Regulation

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By Lambda Legal

May 24, 2019

Today, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) proposed new regulations designed to roll back regulations issued during the Obama Administration that clarified that, pursuant to federal law, the sex discrimination protections of the Affordable Care Act forbid discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people.

See Also: Anti-LGBT Rulings, Laws and Amendments, Health Care Fairness

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Lambda Legal, Americans United, the Center for Reproductive Rights, and the County of Santa Clara Ask Court for Immediate Halt to Implementation of Denial of Care Rule

docsocial.png

Lambda Legal Celebrates Key Victory Reaffirming LGBT Rights in Flower Shop Discrimination Case

flowers.jpeg

Every Child Deserves a Family Act Introduced in Congress

edcf_act.jpg

California District Court Grants Judgment to HIV+ Man Denied Haircut at Los Angeles Barbershop

nikko_social_share.png

LGBT Advocates Sue Trump HHS and South Carolina for Discriminating Against Same-Sex Foster Parents

brandy_and_eden_03.jpg

Lambda Legal, Americans United and Center for Reproductive Rights Sue Trump Administration to Block Denial of Care Rule

trump_pence.jpg

Lambda Legal: Trump Administration Assault on LGBT People Continues with New ACA Regulation

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