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VICTORY! Judge Halts Implementation of Ban on Speech about Systemic Racism, Sexism, and Implicit Bias

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By Lambda Legal

December 23, 2020

U.S. District Court Judge Beth Labson Freeman issued a nationwide preliminary injunction barring the Trump administration from implementing its executive order that prohibits federal contractors and grantees from conducting workplace diversity trainings or engaging in grant-funded work that explicitly acknowledges and confronts the existence of structural racism and sexism in our society.

See Also: Racial Justice and Low-Income Advocacy, California
Lambda Legal Files Brief in Support of Transgender Employee Fighting Hobby Lobby

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By Lambda Legal

December 22, 2020

See Also: Employment and Rights in the Workplace, Transgender Rights, Illinois
Lambda Legal and Immigration Equality Challenge Trump Administration's "Death to Asylum" Rule

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By Lambda Legal

December 21, 2020

Lambda Legal, Immigration Equality, and co-counsel Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP, filed a federal lawsuit, Immigration Equality v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security, challenging the Trump administration’s recently published “death to asylum” rule, which makes sweeping, essentially fatal changes to the United States asylum system.

See Also: Immigration, United States
Lambda Legal Applauds Atlanta's Mayor for Naming the Atlanta Eagle an Historic Landmark

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By Gregory R. Nevins

December 21, 2020

Lambda Legal applauds the City of Atlanta for designating the Atlanta Eagle as an historic landmark. Like the Stonewall Inn in New York City, the Atlanta Eagle is an historic gathering place for LGBTQ people in Atlanta and it has become a special spot in the story for our struggle for freedom and dignity.
Victory! Federal Court Strikes Down Ohio’s Anti-Transgender Birth Certificate Policy

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By Lambda Legal

December 16, 2020

Today, the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio struck down a discriminatory state policy that prevented transgender people born in Ohio from correcting the gender marker on their birth certificates.

See Also: Transgender Rights, Ohio
Lambda Legal and Immigration Equality to Challenge Cruel New Asylum Ban in Court

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By Lambda Legal

December 10, 2020

The ban will make it virtually impossible for LGBTQ people and those living with HIV who fled persecution in their countries of origin to secure asylum in the U.S.

See Also: Immigration
Lambda Legal Condemns the Confirmation of Stephen Schwartz to the U.S. Court of Federal Claims

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By Lambda Legal

December 9, 2020

This confirmation of Stephen Schwartz to the U.S. Court of Federal Claims is another dark day for the U.S. judiciary and the latest attack on LGBTQ people from the Trump-Pence Administration.

See Also: Fair Courts Project

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VICTORY! Judge Halts Implementation of Ban on Speech about Systemic Racism, Sexism, and Implicit Bias

trump_head_down.jpg

Lambda Legal Files Brief in Support of Transgender Employee Fighting Hobby Lobby

trans_flag_with_symbol.jpg

Lambda Legal and Immigration Equality Challenge Trump Administration's "Death to Asylum" Rule

shutterstock_1258836193_refugees_are_welcome_here.jpg

Lambda Legal Applauds Atlanta's Mayor for Naming the Atlanta Eagle an Historic Landmark

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Victory! Federal Court Strikes Down Ohio’s Anti-Transgender Birth Certificate Policy

shutterstock_1429387109.jpg

Lambda Legal and Immigration Equality to Challenge Cruel New Asylum Ban in Court

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Lambda Legal Condemns the Confirmation of Stephen Schwartz to the U.S. Court of Federal Claims

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