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(St. Louis, March 14, 2018) – Today 47 businesses, attorneys general from 15 states and the District of Columbia, the nation’s leading LGBT rights organizations, and several other organizations submitted friend-of-the-court briefs to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit in support of Lambda Legal client Mark Horton, a gay man whose job offer from a St. Louis-based health management organization was withdrawn after the company’s owners learned Horton is gay.

(Washington, DC, March 05, 2018) – Lambda Legal, Alliance for Justice, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, the National Center for Transgender Equality, NARAL Pro-Choice America, and supporting groups will host a rally on Tuesday, March 6th at 11 a.m. by the steps of the Supreme Court to oppose the federal judicial nominations of Kyle Duncan and Thomas Farr, who are awaiting a vote from the full Senate. Congressman Kennedy and McEachin will join civil rights leaders opposing Mr. Duncan and Mr.

(New York, NY, February 26, 2018) —Today, in a 10-3 decision, the full Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation violates the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the federal law that prohibits employers from discriminating against employees on the basis of sex, race, color, national origin and religion. Today’s ruling comes in the case of the late Donald Zarda, a New York skydiving instructor who was fired from his job because he was gay.

Lambda Legal today filed a federal lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) on behalf of a couple who were denied the opportunity even to apply to serve as foster parents for refugee children by a USCCB affiliate because, they were told, they did not “mirror the Holy Family.”