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

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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
VICTORY! Same-Sex Spouses Nationwide Gain Equal Access to Social Security Survivor's Benefits

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May 27, 2020

See Also: Anti-LGBT Laws Rulings and Amendments, Marriage Relationships and Family Protections, Seniors
Lambda Legal Urges Supreme Court to Uphold the Affordable Care Act

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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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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
Lambda Legal Statement on Senate Vote Amending Puerto Rico’s Civil Code

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May 11, 2020

Today, after the Puerto Rico Senate approved a new Civil Code for the Commonwealth affecting the rights of LGBTQ people, Lambda Legal, through Senior Attorney and Puerto Rico native, Omar Gonzalez-Pagan, released the following statement.

See Also: Anti-LGBT Laws Rulings and Amendments, Transgender Rights
VICTORY: Lesbian Couple to Have Their Day in Court in Challenge to HHS and South Carolina Foster Care Policy

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May 8, 2020

The couple was turned away by a government-funded foster care agency because they, as a lesbian couple, did not meet the agency’s religious criteria, which excludes prospective foster parents who are not evangelical Protestant Christian or who are same-sex couples of any faith.

See Also: Adoption and Parenting, Anti-LGBT Rulings, Laws and Amendments, Marriage Relationships and Family Protections, Youth in Out-of-Home Care
Lambda Legal to Dallas Court: Marriage is Marriage

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May 6, 2020

See Also: Anti-LGBT Laws Rulings and Amendments, Marriage
Once Again: Freedom of Religion is Not Freedom to Harm

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May 6, 2020

Today, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral argument in two cases joined for the purposes of argument, Trump v. Pennsylvania and Little Sisters of the Poor Saints Peter and Paul Home v. Pennsylvania.

See Also: Anti-LGBT Laws Rulings and Amendments, Health Care Fairness, Religious Exemptions
ICE Releases Lambda Legal and Immigration Equality Clients Living with HIV

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May 1, 2020

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) late yesterday released two asylum seekers living with HIV who were detained at an ICE detention facility in eastern Texas, less than one week after Lambda Legal and Immigration Equality, along with co-counsel Vinson & Elkins, submitted a letter demanding their release. The men were severely persecuted in Cuba because of their political activism and sexual orientation and had been detained in the U.S. since October 2019.

See Also: HIV, Immigration
This Colorado Marketing and Design Firm Wants A Pass to Discriminate

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April 30, 2020

Lambda Legal urged the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit to affirm a lower court that denied a Colorado marketing and design firm’s request that it be exempt from the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act (CADA) and instead be allowed to refuse website design services to same-sex couples because the owner claims it violates her religion to treat same- and different-sex couples equally.

See Also: Anti-LGBT Rulings, Laws and Amendments, Law & Policy Project, Religious Exemptions