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3-Alarm Emergency in Indiana

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January 26, 2016

Members of the Indiana Senate Judiciary and Rules committees are set to hear on Wednesday three bills that are harmful to LGBT Hoosiers — and we need your help to stop these bills from advancing.

See Also: Anti-LGBT Rulings, Laws and Amendments, Religious Exemptions, Religious Freedom and Restoration Act, Religiously Motivated Discrimination, rfra
Lambda Legal to Indiana Legislators: Reject these Bills!

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January 25, 2016

Lambda Legal today called for the Indiana Senate Judiciary and Rules Committees to vote down SB 100, SB 344 and SB 66, three bills which would enshrine discrimination and deliver a devastating blow to LGBT Hoosiers.

See Also: Anti-LGBT Rulings, Laws and Amendments, Religious Exemptions, Religiously Motivated Discrimination, rfra
Lambda Legal Applauds Appointment of First Openly Lesbian Justice to Minnesota Supreme Court

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January 22, 2016

Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton today announced that Minnesota Appeals Court Judge Margaret Chutich would be appointed to the state’s supreme court. With this appointment, Chutich became the state’s first openly gay justice. Following the announcement, Lambda Legal Fair Courts Project Director Eric Lesh said:

See Also: Fair Courts Project
Victory! Lambda Legal Resolves Lawsuit on Behalf of American Military Partner Association for VA Benefits for Same-Sex Spouses

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January 20, 2016

Today, Lambda Legal and the American Military Partner Association (AMPA) announced that they are concluding litigation against the US Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) following the VA’s changes to its policies on benefits ending discrimination against veterans and their same-sex spouses.

See Also: Marriage, Marriage Relationships and Family Protections, Same-sex relationships
Lambda Legal Sues Boulder County Property Owner for Denying Housing to LGBT Family

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January 14, 2016

Lambda Legal filed a federal discrimination lawsuit against a Boulder County property owner who violated the federal Fair Housing Act and the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act by refusing to rent a housing unit she owns in Gold Hill, Colorado, to a same-sex couple, one of whom is transgender, and their children because she worried their “uniqueness” would jeopardize her standing in the community.

See Also: Family, Housing
Lambda Legal to Eleventh Circuit: Federal Law Prohibits Discrimination Against Lesbian Employee

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January 7, 2016

Today, Lambda Legal urged the U.S. Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals to reverse a lower court ruling and allow Jameka Evans to present her case alleging that Georgia Regional Hospital of Savannah harassed and punished her, eventually forcing her resignation, because she is a lesbian.

See Also: Employment and Rights in the Workplace
Lambda Legal Files Brief Urging U.S. Supreme Court to Protect Access to Abortion

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January 5, 2016

Lambda Legal filed a friend-of-the-court brief with the U.S. Supreme Court yesterday in support of the Texas abortion clinics, physicians who perform abortions and Texas women who need abortion services, who are challenging Texas’s unduly burdensome abortion regulations in Whole Woman’s Health v. Cole.

See Also: Health Care Fairness, Law & Policy Project, Reproductive Rights and Sexual Health
15 in 2015: Lambda Legal’s Year in Review

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December 26, 2015

2015 was a historic year in the fight for equality for LGBT people and those living with HIV, and Lambda Legal led the fight in courts and communities across the country. Here are some of the highlights of Lambda Legal’s work this year:

See Also: Criminal Justice, Criminal Justice and Police Misconduct, Employment and Rights in the Workplace, Fair Courts Project, Health Care Fairness, HIV, Housing, Immigration, LAWS AND AMENDMENTS, Marriage, RACIAL JUSTICE & LOW-INCOME ADVOCACY, Relationships and Family Protections, Seniors, Transgender Rights, Youth and Schools, Youth in Out-of-Home Care
New Blood Donation Policy Does Not Go Far Enough

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December 21, 2015

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today announced new guidelines for blood donations that change the current lifetime ban for men who have sex with men (MSM) to a one-year ban. The guidelines also make clear that transgender individuals may self-report their gender for purposes of applying the MSM policy.

See Also: Blood Ban, HIV
Lambda Legal Files Class Action in Florida Seeking Accurate Death Certificates for Surviving Same-Sex Spouses

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December 21, 2015

Lambda Legal filed a federal class action lawsuit in the U. S.

See Also: Birchfield v. Armstrong, Family, Seniors