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Senior DOJ Official Diana Flynn Moves to Lambda Legal

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March 29, 2018

As Litigation Director, Flynn joins new COO Charles Fields and top-shelf senior management team at nation’s flagship LGBTQ legal organization

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Send the Bigoted Transgender Military Ban to the Dustbin of History

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March 27, 2018

“Six courts at multiple levels have swatted down this ill-conceived and discriminatory ban, and the so-called implementation ‘plan’ changed nothing: it’s time to kick it to the curb for good.”

See Also: Out at Work
Lambda Legal, OutServe-SLDN Urge District Court to Block Permanently Discriminatory Transgender Military Ban

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March 25, 2018

First oral argument after release of White House implementation ‘plan’ scheduled for Tuesday, March 27, 10:00am PT. Lawyers and plaintiffs to hold press conference upon conclusion of hearing.
New White House Transgender Ban Implementation Plan Solves Nothing

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March 23, 2018

The White House today released the proposed plan to implement the discriminatory transgender military ban that President Trump called for in a series of tweets in July.

See Also: Anti-LGBT Rulings, Laws and Amendments, Employment and Rights in the Workplace, Military, Transgender Rights
Lambda Legal Attorneys Omar Gonzalez-Pagan and Richard Saenz Honored by Hispanic National Bar Association

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March 16, 2018

The Hispanic National Bar Association (HNBA) named Lambda Legal Staff Attorneys Omar Gonzalez-Pagan and Richard Saenz two recipients of the 2018 HNBA Top Lawyers Under 40 Award.
Oregon Supreme Court Rules Against Oregon Judge Who Refused To Marry Same-Sex Couples (AKA Do His Job)

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March 15, 2018

The Oregon Supreme Court today affirmed a determination by the Oregon Commission on Judicial Fitness and Disability that Judge Vance D. Day had violated state rules of judicial ethics when he devised a scheme to avoid marrying same-sex couples by instructing court staff to investigate the gender of marriage applicants and represent that he was unavailable if they were of the same sex, among other charges.

See Also: Fair Courts Project, Marriage
Lambda Legal Reaches Favorable Settlement for Passion Star, Transgender Woman Sexually Assaulted in Texas Men's Prisons

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March 15, 2018

See Also: Anti-LGBT Rulings, Laws and Amendments, Criminal Justice, Transgender Rights
Oregon Courts Are Right To Reject Religious License to Discriminate

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March 15, 2018

Lambda Legal today urged the Oregon Supreme Court to deny a petition from the former owners of an Oregon bakery seeking to overturn a lower court ruling that they violated Oregon's anti-discrimination law in 2013 when they refused to sell a wedding cake to a lesbian couple because they claimed it was against their religion.

See Also: Anti-LGBT Rulings, Laws and Amendments, Marriage, Religious Exemptions, Same-sex relationships
47 Businesses, States, EEOC and Civil Rights Groups Urge Federal Court to End Sexual Orientation Employment Discrimination

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March 14, 2018

47 businesses, attorneys general from 15 states and the District of Columbia, the nation’s leading LGBT rights organizations, and several other organizations submitted friend-of-the-court briefs to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit in support of Lambda Legal client Mark Horton, a gay man whose job offer from a St. Louis-based health management organization was withdrawn after the company’s owners learned Horton is gay.

See Also: Out at Work
Lambda Legal Presses Fight for Federal LGBT Employment Discrimination Protection in New Appeals Court Case

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March 7, 2018

Lambda Legal and co-counsel Mathis, Marifian & Richter, LTD. filed an appeal with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit on behalf of Mark Horton, a healthcare sales specialist whose job offer at St. Louis-based Midwest Geriatric Management (MGM) was withdrawn when the employer learned Horton is gay.

See Also: Anti-LGBT Laws Rulings and Amendments, Out at Work