After news of the murder of Neulisa Luciano Ruiz, known as Alexa, a transgender woman in Puerto Rico in a possible hate crime, Omar Gonzalez-Pagan, Senior Attorney at Lambda Legal, issued a statement.
The U.S. Supreme Court today agreed to hear Fulton v. City of Philadelphia, an appeal by Catholic Social Services (CSS), a taxpayer-funded child welfare agency, which claims a constitutional right to turn away same-sex couples seeking to provide loving homes to children in the public foster care system.
“The Supreme Court has the opportunity to affirm the basic principle that when agencies accept government money to provide services to children involved in the public foster care system, their religious beliefs are not a license to discriminate.”
Lambda Legal today urged the U.S. District Court for the District of Alaska to end the State of Alaska’s blanket exclusion of medically necessary transition-related surgical treatment from AlaskaCare, the state employee health care plan, and to obtain relief for Jennifer Fletcher, a state legislative librarian, who was forced to pay out of pocket for her medical treatment.
Today, after the U.S. Senate, along party lines, confirmed Andrew Brasher for a lifetime position to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, Sasha Buchert, Senior Attorney at Lambda Legal, issued a statement.