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Lambda Legal Urges Third Circuit to Uphold Ruling Protecting LGBTQ Foster Youth and Parents

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October 5, 2018

By seeking out a license to discriminate against same-sex couples, CSS harms the very children it purports to serve.

See Also: Marriage Relationships and Family Protections, Religious Exemptions, Same-sex relationships, Youth in Out-of-Home Care
Lambda Legal Sues Social Security on Behalf of Lesbian Seeking Spousal Survivor's Benefits

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September 25, 2018

Lambda Legal today filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA) on behalf of a 63-year-old lesbian seeking spousal survivor's benefits based on her relationship with her partner of 27 years, who died in 2006 before same-sex couples in the State of Washington were able to marry.

See Also: Anti-LGBT Rulings, Laws and Amendments, Marriage Relationships and Family Protections, Same-sex relationships
We Must Stand with Our Muslim Family

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June 26, 2018

See Also: Anti-LGBT Rulings, Laws and Amendments, Immigration, Marriage, Marriage Relationships and Family Protections, Same-sex relationships
Lambda Legal Raises Alarm over Supreme Court Order Reversing Washington Religious Exemptions Decision That Enforced State Nondiscrimination Law

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June 25, 2018

The U.S. Supreme Court today decided to overturn the unanimous decision of the Washington Supreme Court ruling that a Richland, WA florist had violated the Washington Law Against Discrimination when she refused to sell flowers to a same-sex couple for their wedding.

See Also: Anti-LGBT Rulings, Laws and Amendments, Marriage, Marriage Relationships and Family Protections, Religious Exemptions, Same-sex relationships
Kansas Adds Name to Roll of States Denying Children Loving Families

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May 18, 2018

Today, Kansas Gov. Jeff Colyer signed into law Kansas SB 284, a license-to-discriminate bill that allows taxpayer-funded child welfare agencies to reject foster or adoptive parents based upon the agency's religious beliefs.

See Also: Adoption and Parenting, Anti-LGBT Laws Rulings and Amendments, Marriage Relationships and Family Protections, Religious Exemptions, Teens & Young Adults, Youth in Out-of-Home Care
Oklahoma Becomes First State In 2018 To Sign Anti-LGBTQ Legislation Into Law

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May 11, 2018

Today, Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin signed SB 1140, a license-to-discriminate bill that would allow taxpayer-funded child welfare agencies to reject foster or adoptive parents based upon the agency’s religious beliefs.

See Also: Adoption and Parenting, Anti-LGBT Laws Rulings and Amendments, Marriage Relationships and Family Protections, Religious Exemptions, Teens & Young Adults, Youth in Out-of-Home Care
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
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
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
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

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Lambda Legal Urges Third Circuit to Uphold Ruling Protecting LGBTQ Foster Youth and Parents

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Lambda Legal Sues Social Security on Behalf of Lesbian Seeking Spousal Survivor's Benefits

helen_in_black_marge_with_vest1_copy.jpg

We Must Stand with Our Muslim Family

trans_muslim_proud.jpg

Lambda Legal Raises Alarm over Supreme Court Order Reversing Washington Religious Exemptions Decision That Enforced State Nondiscrimination Law

flowers.jpg

Kansas Adds Name to Roll of States Denying Children Loving Families

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Oklahoma Becomes First State In 2018 To Sign Anti-LGBTQ Legislation Into Law

boy-1666611_1920_1.jpg

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

oklahoma_kidspayprice_r1.png

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

20160905_164946.jpg

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

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

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