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Sixth Circuit Hears Arguments in Six Cases Seeking Recognition of Marriage and Adoption for Same-Sex Couples

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August 6, 2014

Today, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals heard oral arguments in a federal lawsuit seeking to compel the State of Ohio to recognize the marriages of same-sex couples and issue accurate birth certificates listing both parents for the Ohio-born children of married same-sex couples.

See Also: Adoption and Parenting, Marriage, Same-sex relationships
Lambda Legal: Southern Justice

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August 5, 2014

Lambda Legal has been active in the South for decades, fighting for justice and winning cases that make a difference for our clients and improve the legal landscape.
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
Lambda Legal Calls on Congress to Do the Right Thing and Reject Flawed, Piecemeal Approach to Immigration Reform

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August 1, 2014

Lambda Legal called on members of Congress to turn away from the fatally flawed, piecemeal approach to immigration reform of bills like H.R. 5230, widely criticized for purporting to promote border security instead of addressing the humanitarian needs of immigrant youth on the border.

See Also: Immigration and Asylum, Proyecto Igualdad
Nevada Revises Foster Care Regulations to Remove Automatic Exclusion of People Living with HIV

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July 31, 2014

In response to an appeal from Lambda Legal, the Division of Child and Family Services (DCFS) of the Nevada Department of Health and Human Services has revised its regulations concerning licensing prospective foster parents to remove a requirement that foster parents be free of a list of communicable diseases that included HIV.

See Also: HIV, Youth in Out-of-Home Care
People Magazine: "Robina Asti Wins an Important Legal Battle for Transgender Couples"

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July 31, 2014

Lambda Legal client Robina Asti has been featured in People Magazine.

See Also: Seniors, Transgender Rights
Victory! Wisconsin Supreme Court Upholds Domestic Partnership Registry in Lambda Legal Case

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July 31, 2014

Today the Wisconsin Supreme Court upheld the state’s domestic partnership registry as constitutional, bringing a joyful end to a long legal battle by Lambda Legal on behalf of Fair Wisconsin and five intervening defendant couples.

See Also: Domestic Partnership, Same-sex relationships