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Lambda Legal Sues California HIV/AIDS Drug Program Administrator for Privacy Breach

(San Francisco, CA, April 3, 2018) – Lambda Legal today filed a class-action lawsuit in California Superior Court against A.J. Boggs & Company on behalf of 93 low-income Californians living with HIV whose confidential medical records – including their HIV status – were compromised by a data breach of A.J. Boggs’s California AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP) online enrollment system.

Lambda Legal and ACLU File Lawsuit to Challenge Ohio’s Discriminatory Birth Certificate Policy

COLUMBUS—Today the American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio, the American Civil Liberties Union, and Lambda Legal filed a lawsuit challenging Ohio’s refusal to correct the gender marker on birth certificates for transgender individuals, for any reason, at any time. Ohio is one of just three states, with Tennessee and Kansas that has yet to change the extremely regressive and outdated policy.

Senior DOJ Official Diana Flynn Moves to Lambda Legal

(Washington, DC and New York City, March 28, 2018) – Lambda Legal announced today that it had hired Diana Flynn, the Chief of the Appellate Section of the Civil Rights Division at the Department of Justice, as its new Litigation Director. Flynn joins her former DOJ colleague Sharon McGowan, who left DOJ in February 2017 to become Lambda Legal’s Director of Strategy, overseeing both the organization’s litigation and policy work.

Lambda Legal and OutServe-SLDN: Send the Bigoted Transgender Military Ban to the Dustbin of History

(Seattle, WA, March 27, 2018) – Lambda Legal and OutServe-SLDN today argued before a federal district court that the Trump Administration’s plan to ban transgender people from serving openly in the U.S. Armed Services is so clearly unconstitutional that it should be permanently blocked. It was the first such argument among the four lawsuits challenging the ban and came just five days after the White House released its so-called ‘plan’ for implementing the discriminatory and harmful ban.

Lambda Legal, OutServe-SLDN Urge District Court to Block Permanently Discriminatory Transgender Military Ban

(SEATTLE, March 25, 2018) – Lambda Legal and OutServe-SLDN, together with the State of Washington, will appear Tuesday before the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington to urge the court to block for good implementation of the Trump Administration’s effort to ban transgender people from serving openly in the U.S. Armed Services. Tuesday’s argument is the first to follow Friday’s release of the so-called implementation plan for the bigoted and unconstitutional transgender military ban.

Lambda Legal: White House Transgender Ban Implementation Plan Solves Nothing

(Los Angeles, March 23, 2018) – The White House today released the proposed plan to implement the discriminatory transgender military ban that President Trump called for in a series of tweets in July. The ban was to go into effect today, March 23, based on the August 25, 2017 memorandum that followed the tweets, but has been stopped by preliminary injunctions won by Lambda Legal and others. On Tuesday, March 27, Lambda Legal and OutServe-SLDN will be in court asking a federal judge to make the injunction permanent.
 

MEDIA ADVISORY: LGBT Organizations Host Press Conference Call on Transgender Ban Implementation Plan

Lambda Legal, the Human Rights Campaign, OutServe-SLDN, the American Military Partner Association, and the Gender Justice League will host a press conference call TONIGHT at 10 p.m. ET to discuss the Trump-Pence administration’s announcement regarding its proposed ban on transgender servicemembers.
 
Call information below:
 

WHAT:             Press call on the proposed ban on transgender servicemembers.

Trump Judicial Nominee Mocks Gay Marriage, Racial Diversity, and Justice Kennedy

(Washington, DC, March 21, 2018) – Today, Lambda Legal led 40 national, state, and local LGBT organizations in urging the U.S. Senate to reject the nomination of Gordon Giampietro to the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin and asked the White House to immediately withdraw the nomination.

Lambda Legal: Oregon Courts Right to Reject Religious License to Discriminate

(Salem, OR, March 16, 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. The petition, filed by the anti-LGBT legal organization First Liberty Institute on behalf of the former owners of Gresham, Oregon-based Sweet Cakes by Melissa, comes as the U.S.

Lambda Legal Attorneys Omar Gonzalez-Pagan and Richard Saenz Honored by Hispanic National Bar Association

(San Francisco, March 16, 2018) – The Hispanic National Bar Association (HNBA) named Lambda Legal Staff Attorneys Omar Gonzalez-Pagan and Richard Saenz two recipients of the 2018 HNBA Top Lawyers Under 40 Award.

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