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Oklahoma and Kansas License-to-Discriminate Bills Deny Children Loving Families

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May 4, 2018

The governors of Oklahoma and Kansas must veto these damaging child welfare bills, not compete to see who will become the first in 2018 to sign discrimination into law and withhold loving homes from vulnerable children.

See Also: Adoption and Parenting, Anti-LGBT Rulings, LAWS AND AMENDMENTS, Marriage Relationships and Family Protections, Religious Exemptions, Teens & Young Adults, Youth in Out-of-Home Care
Lambda Legal Files FOIA Request After Trump Administration Restricts Use of Seven Words at CDC

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December 20, 2017

Today, Lambda Legal filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for any and all documents and communications from the Trump-Pence administration regarding their prohibition of the words “vulnerable,” “entitlement,” “diversity,” “transgender,” “fetus,” “evidence-based” and “science-based” in any budget documents from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), other divisions of HHS or any government agency.

See Also: Anti-LGBT Rulings, Health Care Fairness, HIV, LAWS AND AMENDMENTS, Reproductive Rights and Sexual Health, Transgender Rights
US Supreme Court Denies Appeal of LGBT Lambda Legal Employment Discrimination Case

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December 11, 2017

Today, the U.S. Supreme Court announced that it will not review the Lambda Legal case on behalf of Jameka Evans, a Savannah security guard who was harassed at work and forced from her job because she is a lesbian.

See Also: Anti-LGBT Rulings, Employment and Rights in the Workplace, LAWS AND AMENDMENTS, SCOTUS
Making "Next" a Reality: On Progress with Senator Tammy Baldwin

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November 3, 2016

Tammy Baldwin, the first openly gay U.S. Senator in history, has been busy. During the summer recess, she joined in submitting an amicus brief to support Lambda Legal's petition for rehearing in the Hively workplace discrimination case.

See Also: LAWS AND AMENDMENTS, Tell U.S. Senators: Do Your Job!
Lambda Legal Condemns Passage of Anti-LGBT Mississippi Bill HB 1523

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April 5, 2016

Mississippi legislators and Gov. Bryant have ignored the voices of reason and responsibility and have exposed many already terribly vulnerable in the state to yet more discrimination, abuse and violence.

See Also: LAWS AND AMENDMENTS, Religious Exemptions, Religiously Motivated Discrimination
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
Freedom of Religion is Not Freedom to Discriminate Against Gay Customers

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August 4, 2014

Lambda Legal and the Hawai‘i Civil Rights Commission today urged the Intermediate Court of Appeals of the State of Hawai`i to reject a new argument that the recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores allows a commercial business operating a bed and breakfast to refuse accommodation to a lesbian couple, and thereby violate Hawai`i’s antidiscrimination law, by invoking the business owner’s religious beliefs as a defense.

See Also: Anti-LGBT Rulings, LAWS AND AMENDMENTS, Marriage, Relationships and Family Protections, Religious Exemptions, Same-sex relationships
Hawai‘i Court Rules for Lesbian Couple Turned Away by Bed & Breakfast

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April 16, 2013

The First Circuit Court of Hawai‘i yesterday issued a ruling in favor of a lesbian couple who filed a discrimination lawsuit against Aloha Bed & Breakfast after the business turned them away because of their sexual orientation.

See Also: Anti-LGBT Rulings, LAWS AND AMENDMENTS, Marriage, Relationships and Family Protections, Religious Exemptions, Same-sex relationships

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