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Lambda Legal Condemns South Dakota and Mississippi Bills Targeting Trans Youth

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March 11, 2021

“To trans youth in South Dakota, Mississippi and all across the country, trust that there is an entire community of people who celebrate you, stand with you, and believe that you deserve to feel safe and respected.”

See Also: Teens & Young Adults, Transgender Rights, Youth and Schools
Victory! Mississippi Supreme Court Rules That Lesbian Spouses Are Both Legal Parents to Their Marital Children

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April 5, 2018

Today, the Mississippi Supreme Court ruled that married same-sex couples should have the same parenting rights as different sex couples in a Lambda Legal case on behalf of Chris Strickland, a non-biological lesbian mother who was denied legal parentage for children she and her now ex-wife planned for and raised together.

See Also: Adoption and Parenting, Anti-LGBT Rulings, Laws and Amendments, Marriage, Marriage Relationships and Family Protections, Same-sex relationships
Lambda Legal Mourns Passing of Jack Zawadski, Husband of Deceased Gay Man Turned Away by Mississippi Funeral Home

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January 31, 2018

Lambda Legal announced it will continue its battle against a Picayune, MS, funeral home on behalf of Jack Zawadski, an 82-year-old widower whose family was forced to scramble to find another funeral home to provide services for his husband, Robert “Bob” Huskey, when the funeral home discriminated against them when told they were a married same-sex couple.
Court to Decide If Lesbian Mom Has More Rights Than Anonymous Sperm Donor

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November 29, 2017

See Also: Adoption and Parenting, Marriage, Marriage Relationships and Family Protections, Same-sex relationships
Lambda Legal and Advocates Urge Supreme Court to Strike Down Anti-LGBT Mississippi Law

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October 10, 2017

See Also: Anti-LGBT Legislation and Amendments, Marriage, Religious Exemptions, Same-sex relationships, Transgender Rights
Advocates Will Appeal Case Against Mississippi Anti-LGBT Law HB 1523 to Supreme Court

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October 2, 2017

Mississippi civil rights attorney Rob McDuff, along with Mississippi Center for Justice and Lambda Legal, today announced they will appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit denied their en banc petition asking the full court to rehear the case challenging Mississippi House Bill 1523.

See Also: Law & Policy Project, Marriage Relationships and Family Protections, Same-sex relationships, Transgender Rights
Legal Advocates Urge Full Fifth Circuit to Rehear Case Challenging Anti-LGBT Mississippi Law

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July 6, 2017

Mississippi’s HB 1523 is an extreme discrimination law dressed up in religious clothes.

See Also: Anti-LGBT Rulings, Laws and Amendments
Fifth Circuit Unleashes Anti-LGBT Mississippi Law, HB 1523

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June 22, 2017

The U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the injunction against Mississippi House Bill 1523, the discriminatory anti-LGBT legislation challenged in Barber v. Bryant, the federal lawsuit brought by Mississippi civil rights attorney Robert McDuff, the Mississippi Center for Justice and Lambda Legal. The advocates will continue to fight this discriminatory law.

See Also: Anti-LGBT Rulings, Laws and Amendments, Religious Exemptions
A Court Ruled That an Anonymous Sperm Donor Has Parental Rights, but This Lesbian Mom Doesn't. Lambda Legal Is Appealing.

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June 1, 2017

Today, Lambda Legal and local counsel Dianne Ellis filed an appeal in the Mississippi Supreme Court on behalf of Christina Strickland, a non-biological lesbian mother denied legal parentage to children she and her now ex-wife planned for and raised together.

See Also: Adoption and Parenting, Marriage Relationships and Family Protections, Same-sex relationships
Not in Our Name, Mr. Sessions

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May 16, 2017

By touting the conviction and sentence given to Mercedes Williamson’s murderer yesterday, Sessions clearly — and cynically — hopes to use violence against transgender people as a way to disarm progressives who are speaking out against Sessions’ misguided and racially-charged approach to criminal justice.

See Also: Criminal Justice, Law & Policy Project, RACIAL JUSTICE & LOW-INCOME ADVOCACY, Resistance, Transgender Rights

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Lambda Legal Condemns South Dakota and Mississippi Bills Targeting Trans Youth

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Victory! Mississippi Supreme Court Rules That Lesbian Spouses Are Both Legal Parents to Their Marital Children

20160905_164946.jpg

Lambda Legal Mourns Passing of Jack Zawadski, Husband of Deceased Gay Man Turned Away by Mississippi Funeral Home

screen_shot_2018-01-31_at_12.24.58_pm.png

Court to Decide If Lesbian Mom Has More Rights Than Anonymous Sperm Donor

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Lambda Legal and Advocates Urge Supreme Court to Strike Down Anti-LGBT Mississippi Law

1200x630_barber-plaintiffs.png

Advocates Will Appeal Case Against Mississippi Anti-LGBT Law HB 1523 to Supreme Court

1200x630_barber-plaintiffs.png

Legal Advocates Urge Full Fifth Circuit to Rehear Case Challenging Anti-LGBT Mississippi Law

rimsbarber.jpg

Fifth Circuit Unleashes Anti-LGBT Mississippi Law, HB 1523

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A Court Ruled That an Anonymous Sperm Donor Has Parental Rights, but This Lesbian Mom Doesn't. Lambda Legal Is Appealing.

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Not in Our Name, Mr. Sessions

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