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The Social Security Administration Denied A Gay Widower Spousal Benefits. We're Suing.

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November 20, 2018

Lambda Legal today filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA) on behalf of a 65-year-old gay man seeking spousal survivor’s benefits based on his 43-year relationship with his husband, who died seven months after Arizona began allowing same-sex couples to marry.

See Also: Anti-LGBT Laws Rulings and Amendments, Marriage Relationships and Family Protections, Same-sex relationships
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
Victory! Hawai`i Supreme Court Upholds Parenting Rights and Responsibilities of Married Same-Sex Couples

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October 5, 2018

The Supreme Court of Hawai‘i yesterday affirmed a lower court ruling that, just like other spouses, same-sex spouses must be treated as the presumed parents of children born during their marriage, with equal rights and equal responsibilities, including legal parentage and child support.

See Also: Marriage Relationships and Family Protections, Same-sex relationships, Youth
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
Victory! NYC Government & Department of Correction Pays Victim of Antigay Attack $280K

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September 12, 2018

Lambda Legal client Thomas Hamm, brutally attacked while he visited his incarcerated partner at a men’s facility on Rikers Island, was awarded $280,000 in the resolution of a federal lawsuit against the City of New York and New York City Department of Correction, its officers and supervisors.

See Also: Criminal Justice, Criminal Justice and Police Misconduct, Same-sex relationships
Hawai`i Supreme Court Declines to Hear Case of B&B That Denied Room to Lesbian Couple

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July 11, 2018

The Hawai`i Supreme Court today rejected a petition from a Hawai`i bed & breakfast seeking review of a lower court ruling that the business had violated Hawai’i’s anti-discrimination statute when it denied a room to a lesbian couple because of their sexual orientation.

See Also: Anti-LGBT Laws Rulings and Amendments. Religious Exemptions, 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
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
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

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The Social Security Administration Denied A Gay Widower Spousal Benefits. We're Suing.

me_and_spider_2015_our_last_photo.jpg

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

blog-lgbt-youth.jpg

Victory! Hawai`i Supreme Court Upholds Parenting Rights and Responsibilities of Married Same-Sex Couples

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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

Victory! NYC Government & Department of Correction Pays Victim of Antigay Attack $280K

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Hawai`i Supreme Court Declines to Hear Case of B&B That Denied Room to Lesbian Couple

cervelli_and_ty.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

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

20160905_164946.jpg

Oregon Courts Are Right To Reject Religious License to Discriminate

sweetcakes.png

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