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Lambda Legal to Dallas Court: Marriage is Marriage

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May 6, 2020

See Also: Anti-LGBT Laws Rulings and Amendments, Marriage
Once Again: Freedom of Religion is Not Freedom to Harm

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May 6, 2020

Today, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral argument in two cases joined for the purposes of argument, Trump v. Pennsylvania and Little Sisters of the Poor Saints Peter and Paul Home v. Pennsylvania.

See Also: Anti-LGBT Laws Rulings and Amendments, Health Care Fairness, Religious Exemptions
Lambda Legal Condemns Senate Republicans Push for Anti-Health Care Nominee Walker to DC Circuit in Middle of a Pandemic

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May 5, 2020

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsay Graham has scheduled a hearing tomorrow on the nomination of Justin Walker to the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.

See Also: Fair Courts Project
Prisons Must Begin Releasing People to Stop COVID-19

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May 4, 2020

Prisons, jails, and detention centers are a deadly culture broth for highly contagious viruses like COVID-19.

See Also: Coronavirus, Criminal Justice, Health Care Fairness
ICE Releases Lambda Legal and Immigration Equality Clients Living with HIV

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May 1, 2020

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) late yesterday released two asylum seekers living with HIV who were detained at an ICE detention facility in eastern Texas, less than one week after Lambda Legal and Immigration Equality, along with co-counsel Vinson & Elkins, submitted a letter demanding their release. The men were severely persecuted in Cuba because of their political activism and sexual orientation and had been detained in the U.S. since October 2019.

See Also: HIV, Immigration
This Colorado Marketing and Design Firm Wants A Pass to Discriminate

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April 30, 2020

Lambda Legal urged the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit to affirm a lower court that denied a Colorado marketing and design firm’s request that it be exempt from the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act (CADA) and instead be allowed to refuse website design services to same-sex couples because the owner claims it violates her religion to treat same- and different-sex couples equally.

See Also: Anti-LGBT Rulings, Laws and Amendments, Law & Policy Project, Religious Exemptions
The Cost of COVID-19 for LGBT Older Adults

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April 28, 2020

The effect of discrimination and harassment on the vulnerability of LGBT older adults to COVID-19 is clear.

See Also: Coronavirus, Health Care Fairness, Seniors