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Lambda Legal's friend-of-the-court brief filed in the U.S. Supreme Court with nineteen other professioanl organizations, including, among others, the ACLU and the American Psychological Association.
Despite the California Medical Association's and Christian Medical and Dental Association's defense of a doctor's right to refuse care on the basis of conscience, the discrimination in this case was clearly based on sexual orientation.
Brief of Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund, Asian Equality, Equality Federation, National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium, National Center for Lesbian Rights, National Gay & Lesbian Task Force, People for the American Way Foundation, and Vermont Freedom to Marry Task Force, as Amici Curiae
Brief of Amici Curiae American Psychological Association, National Association of Social Workers, National Association of Social Workers New York City Chapter, and National Association of Social Workers new York State Chapter in Support of Plaintiffs-Respondents
This complaint seeks to redress the denial of spousal health insurance privileges in the case of a retired New York teacher, who married his partner in Canada. Despite being legally married to his partner, the insurer refused to place his spouse on the plan because of his partner's sex.