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Federal Court Warns Idaho Against Disobedience of Injunction Barring Anti-Transgender Discrimination

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By Lambda Legal

June 1, 2020

The Idaho Federal Court has confirmed that its injunction continues to apply, in full force and effect, and it has now expressly cautioned that HB 509 does not whatsoever absolve state officials from their obligation to comply with the federal injunction.

See Also: Anti-LGBT Laws Rulings and Amendments, Transgender Rights, Idaho
We Condemn the Trump Administration's Latest Attack on Transgender Youth in Sports

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By Kevin Jennings

May 29, 2020

Today, Lambda Legal CEO Kevin Jennings, who served as Assistant Deputy Secretary for Safe & Drug-Free Schools in the Department of Education for the Obama administration, issued the following statement in response to the Trump-Pence administration’s latest attack on transgender youth.
VICTORY! Same-Sex Spouses Nationwide Gain Equal Access to Social Security Survivor's Benefits

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By Lambda Legal

May 27, 2020

See Also: Anti-LGBT Laws Rulings and Amendments, Marriage Relationships and Family Protections, Seniors, Arizona
Lambda Legal Mourns Passing of Pioneer HIV Activist and Icon Larry Kramer

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By Kevin Jennings

May 27, 2020

Lambda Legal CEO Kevin Jennings today issued this statement following the passing of pioneering HIV activist and LGBT civil rights icon Larry Kramer.

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

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By Kylee Reynolds

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
Lambda Legal Urges Supreme Court to Uphold the Affordable Care Act

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By Lambda Legal

May 13, 2020

Today, Lambda Legal and Ropes & Gray filed a friend-of-the-court brief with the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of 16 nonprofit organizations that advocate for people living with HIV. The brief argues in support of 19 states and DC, led by California, and the U.S. House of Representatives who are collectively defending the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and appealing a ruling from the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals that invalidates a key provision of the ACA and threatens the law in its entirety.

See Also: Anti-LGBT Laws Rulings and Amendments, Health Care Fairness, HIV
10th Circuit Court Orders State Department to Reconsider Decision to Deny Intersex Vet an Accurate Passport

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By Lambda Legal

May 12, 2020

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit today rejected three of the five reasons the U.S. State Department gave for denying an accurate passport to Dana Zzyym, a U.S. Navy veteran who is intersex and nonbinary, and does not identify as male or female. While the Tenth Circuit held the State Department exercised its authority in an arbitrary and capricious manner, it nonetheless overturned a U.S. District Court ruling in favor of Zzyym and ordered the State Department to reconsider Dana’s passport application anew.

See Also: Anti-LGBT Laws Rulings and Amendments, Intersex, Colorado