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Lambda Legal Asks Court of Appeals to Intervene in Puerto Rico Marriage Case

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March 21, 2016

Lambda Legal filed a petition in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit asking the court to make clear that last summer’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges, which granted same-sex couples the right to marry, applies to Puerto Rico and to order the district court to enter judgment in favor of the plaintiffs.

See Also: Conde v. Garcia-Padilla, Marriage, Marriage Relationships and Family Protections, Puerto Rico
Lambda Legal Hails Nomination of First Openly Lesbian Chief Justice in the Country to Puerto Rico Supreme Court

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February 12, 2016

Puerto Rico Governor Alejandro García Padilla nominated Associate Justice Maite Oronoz Rodriguez as Chief Justice of the commonwealth’s highest court. She would be the first openly LGBT chief justice in the country.

See Also: Fair Courts Project, Proyecto Igualdad, Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico makes progress in respecting the gender expression of its public school students

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October 16, 2015

To be comfortable and thrive in school, students should be able to be themselves, unconstrained by stereotypes about gender.

See Also: Puerto Rico

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