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Oregon Court of Appeals Rules, Again, Against Anti-LGBT Portland-Area Bakery

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January 26, 2022

“The court was right five years ago and is still right today. The Kleins’ faith does not give them a pass to ignore Oregon’s Public Accommodation Law.”

See Also: Anti-LGBT Rulings, Laws and Amendments, Marriage Relationships and Family Protections, Religious Exemptions
Oregon Appellate Court Should Uphold Their Ruling Against Anti-LGBTQ Bakery (Again)

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September 20, 2019

See Also: Anti-LGBT Laws Rulings and Amendments, Religious Exemptions
Supreme Court Punts on Lambda Legal Case of Oregon Baker Who Refused to Bake Wedding Cake for Lesbian Couple

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June 17, 2019

The U.S. Supreme Court today ruled that the Oregon Court of Appeals must look again at how the Oregon court system processed the discrimination claim against an Oregon bakery, Sweetcakes by Melissa, and its conclusion that the bakery violated Oregon’s nondiscrimination statutes when they refused to bake a wedding cake for Lambda Legal clients Rachel and Laurel Bowman-Cryer, because they said doing so would violate the owners’ religious beliefs.

See Also: Anti-LGBT Laws Rulings and Amendments, Religious Exemptions
Lambda Legal and OutServe-SLDN to Ninth Circuit: Don’t Breathe Life into Discriminatory Transgender Military Ban

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October 10, 2018

Lawyers in the lawsuit filed by Lambda Legal and OutServe-SLDN challenging the Trump Administration’s plan to ban transgender people from serving openly in the U.S. Armed Services today urged the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit to maintain the preliminary injunction blocking implementation of the discriminatory ban.

See Also: Military, 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
Oregon Court Rules Against Bakery That Refused to Bake Wedding Cake for Lesbian Couple

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December 28, 2017

It's a decision that is both critically important and completely unsurprising.

See Also: Anti-LGBT Rulings, Laws and Amendments, Law & Policy Project, public accommodations, Religious Exemptions, Religiously Motivated Discrimination
Oregon Thinks Outside the (M/F) Box and Becomes First State to Allow Gender Neutral Marker on State IDs

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June 15, 2017

Lambda Legal is proud to have contributed to this particularly important episode of the X Files.
An Oregon Judge Refused to Marry Same-Sex Couples. We're Fighting Back.

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May 2, 2017

Judge Day directed court staff to use the court record system to investigate whether couples wishing to marry were of the same sex and, if so, to represent that he was unavailable, rather than unwilling, to marry them.

See Also: Fair Courts Project, Law & Policy Project, Marriage, Religious Exemptions, Same-sex relationships
Lambda Legal Represents Lesbian Couple in Wedding Cake Discrimination Case

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September 6, 2016

Lambda Legal has filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the Oregon Court of Appeals in a case of an Oregon bakery that refused to bake a wedding cake for a lesbian couple.

See Also: Religious Exemptions, Religiously Motivated Discrimination
The Nation’s First Bi Governor and the Importance of the “B” in “LGBT”

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February 19, 2015

Oregon Secretary of State Kate Brown made history yesterday when she became the nation’s first openly LGBT person — and, more specifically, the first openly bisexual person — to be sworn in as governor.

See Also: Bisexual, Bisexuality, Kate Brown

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Oregon Court of Appeals Rules, Again, Against Anti-LGBT Portland-Area Bakery

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Oregon Appellate Court Should Uphold Their Ruling Against Anti-LGBTQ Bakery (Again)

sweetcakes.png

Supreme Court Punts on Lambda Legal Case of Oregon Baker Who Refused to Bake Wedding Cake for Lesbian Couple

sweetcakes.png

Lambda Legal and OutServe-SLDN to Ninth Circuit: Don’t Breathe Life into Discriminatory Transgender Military Ban

web_karnoski-salut1.png

Oregon Courts Are Right To Reject Religious License to Discriminate

sweetcakes.png

Oregon Court Rules Against Bakery That Refused to Bake Wedding Cake for Lesbian Couple

sweetcakes.png

Oregon Thinks Outside the (M/F) Box and Becomes First State to Allow Gender Neutral Marker on State IDs

greetings_from_oregon.jpg

An Oregon Judge Refused to Marry Same-Sex Couples. We're Fighting Back.

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Lambda Legal Represents Lesbian Couple in Wedding Cake Discrimination Case

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The Nation’s First Bi Governor and the Importance of the “B” in “LGBT”

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