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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
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
Lambda Legal Calls for Comprehensive Protections for LGBT Hoosiers

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November 17, 2015

Lambda Legal sent an open letter to Indiana Gov. Mike Pence and leaders of the Indiana House and Senate urging them to include sexual orientation and gender identity to the existing categories that enjoy protection from discrimination under Indiana law.

See Also: Anti-LGBT Rulings, Laws and Amendments, Law & Policy Project, Religious Exemptions
Lambda Legal Underscores Importance of Corporate Leadership In RFRA Fight, Honoring Salesforce and Bill Oesterle

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August 28, 2015

On Friday, September 18th, Lambda Legal will honor two leaders whose public stance against Indiana’s so-called “Religious Freedom Restoration Act” (RFRA) this year elevated public outcry, outlined the costly impact of discrimination on business, and set important standard for corporate leadership on civil rights.

See Also: Anti-LGBT Rulings, Laws and Amendments, Law & Policy Project, Religious Exemptions
From Impact Magazine: Indiana Was the Tip Of The Iceberg

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August 18, 2015

More than 100 state bills so far have aimed to use religious beliefs as an excuse for discrimination. The idea is to allow businesses and public employees to mistreat LGBT people and consider married same-sex couples as unmarried.

See Also: Anti-LGBT Rulings, Laws and Amendments, Law & Policy Project, Marriage, Marriage Relationships and Family Protections, Religious Exemptions, Religious Freedom Restoration Act, Religiously Motivated Discrimination, Same-sex relationships
Ask Lambda Legal – The Equality Act

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August 12, 2015

Following the introduction of the Equality Act in July, questions have arisen about just how the bill is designed to protect LGBT people and its potential impact on employers, businesses and religious entities.

See Also: Ask Lambda Legal, Employment and Rights in the Workplace, Housing, Law & Policy Project, Marriage Family and Relationship Protections, Same-sex relationships, Transgender Rights
Lambda Legal Applauds Introduction of Federal Nondiscrimination Bill in Congress

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July 23, 2015

Today Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley and Rhode Island Representative David Cicilline, together with lead co-sponsors Senators Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) and Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Rep. John Lewis (D-GA), introduced the Equality Act, a bill to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity in employment, housing, credit, education, and jury service.

See Also: Employment and Rights in the Workplace, Housing, Law & Policy Project, Marriage, Marriage Relationships and Family Protections, Same-sex relationships, Teens & Young Adults, Transgender Rights, Youth and Schools, Youth in Out-of-Home Care
What You Need to Know About the EEOC Decision

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July 17, 2015

What Just Happened The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) issued a landmark ruling this week that the sex discrimination provisions of Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act protect employees who suffer discrimination because of their sexual orientation.

See Also: Employment and Rights in the Workplace, Law & Policy Project
Comments on the Final Report of President Obama’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing

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May 19, 2015

President Obama’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing just finalized its report addressing the epidemic of police violence and discriminatory policing across the country. The White House also released recommendations yesterday by the President's Law Enforcement Equipment Working Group, which identified important first steps toward rolling back aspects of the militarization of policing. Lambda Legal was among seven LGBT and HIV advocacy organizations that formed a working group to develop recommendations to the President’s Task Force about how to effectively address the violence and discrimination that our communities face.

See Also: Criminal Justice and Police Misconduct, Law & Policy Project
Why the Federal RFRA and Similar State Bills and Laws Threaten LGBT People and People Living with HIV

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April 23, 2015

The following presentation was provided by Jennifer C. Pizer, Lambda Legal Law & Policy Project National Director, at a briefing convened by U.S. Rep. Bobby Scott on the harms of federal and state Religious Freedom and Restoration Acts (RFRA).

See Also: Anti-LGBT Rulings, Laws and Amendments, Law & Policy Project, Religious Exemptions