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Lambda Legal Urges Georgia House to Reject Anti-LGBT Bill HB 757

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February 19, 2016

After the Georgia Senate passed the so-called "First Amendment Defense Act of Georgia (FADA)", Lambda Legal urged the House to reject HB 757. The anti-LGBT bill encourages private businesses, individuals and medical and social services agencies to discriminate against anyone in Georgia on religious grounds.

See Also: Law & Policy Project, Marriage Relationships and Family Protections, Religious Exemptions
Lambda Legal Urges Supreme Court to Reject Argument that Religious Belief Trumps Equal Access to Health Care

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February 18, 2016

Yesterday, Lambda Legal filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the U.S. Supreme Court in Zubik v. Burwell and six related cases urging the Court to reject arguments made by religiously affiliated nonprofit organizations who argue that it burdens their religious beliefs simply to notify the federal government that they are opting out of providing their employees insurance coverage for contraceptives under the Affordable Care Act (ACA).

See Also: Fair Courts Project, Health Care Fairness, Law & Policy Project, Religious Exemptions, Reproductive Rights and Sexual Health, Transgender Rights
Victory! Kentucky Supreme Court Unanimously Affirms Lesbian Mother’s Right to Custody Petition in Lambda Legal Case

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February 18, 2016

Today, in a unanimous decision, the Kentucky Supreme Court ruled that Lambda Legal client, Amy H., a lesbian mother, will have her day in court to petition for joint custody of her daughter.

See Also: Adoption and Parenting, Marriage Relationships and Family Protections, Same-sex relationships
Lambda Legal Warns South Carolina School District that Transgender Student Suspension Could Lead to Lawsuit

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February 17, 2016

Lambda Legal sent a letter to the Horry County School District today urging school officials to reverse their decision to suspend a transgender student and to adopt inclusive bathroom policies that respect the gender identities of its students and are in line with federal law, after news reports that a transgender student was suspended from Socastee High School for using the bathroom that matches his gender identity.

See Also: Transgender Rights, Youth in Schools
South Dakota Legislature Passes Discriminatory Bill Targeting Transgender Students; Lambda Legal Urges Governor to Veto

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February 16, 2016

Today the South Dakota Senate passed House Bill 1008, a discriminatory bill that prevents transgender students from accessing restrooms and single-sex facilities that correspond with their gender identity.
Lambda Legal Hails Nomination of First Openly Lesbian Chief Justice in the Country to Puerto Rico Supreme Court

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February 12, 2016

Puerto Rico Governor Alejandro García Padilla nominated Associate Justice Maite Oronoz Rodriguez as Chief Justice of the commonwealth’s highest court. She would be the first openly LGBT chief justice in the country.

See Also: Fair Courts Project, Proyecto Igualdad, Puerto Rico
Lambda Legal Sues North Carolina Hospital That Denied Health Coverage to Employee’s Same-Sex Spouse

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February 11, 2016

Lambda Legal filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina, Asheville Division, seeking compensation for Sandra Lively, a registered nurse at North Carolina hospital Park Ridge Health, for the thousands of dollars of expenses she incurred when the hospital refused to allow her to enroll her same-sex spouse in the employee health plan.

See Also: Employment and Rights in the Workplace, Health Care Fairness, Marriage Relationships and Family Protections, Religious Exemptions
Rethinking Safer Sex: PrEP

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February 8, 2016

What is PrEP? In 2012, the FDA approved the use of Truvada, an antiretroviral medication normally used to treat HIV, as pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV-negative people.

See Also: HIV, PrEP
Lambda Legal Calls for "All Hands on Deck” as Indiana SB 344 Advances

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January 27, 2016

Tonight the Indiana Senate Rules and Legislative Procedure Committee advanced Senate Bill 344; it will now go to the Senate floor for a vote. Lambda Legal is calling on Indiana. LGBT people, allies, business leaders, athletes and advocates to re-engage in the fight against SB344, a bill that will damage LGBT Hoosiers.

See Also: Anti-LGBT Rulings, Laws and Amendments, Religious Exemptions, Religious Freedom Restoration Act, Religiously Motivated Discrimination, rfra
Victory for Fair Courts! Ninth Circuit Upholds Arizona Judicial Conduct Code

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January 27, 2016

In a major victory for fair courts, the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals today ruled in Wolfson v. Concannon that the rules in the Arizona Judicial Conduct Code restricting political activities of judges and judicial candidates do not violate the U.S. Constitution.

See Also: Fair Courts Project