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Sep 15, 2017
Íøºì±¬ÁÏ Comment on Legislation to Protect Transgender Service Members
WASHINGTON — The Senate introduced a bipartisan bill today that would protect transgender service members by preventing the Department of Defense from removing currently-serving ...
Issue Areas: LGBTQ Rights
Sep 14, 2017
Íøºì±¬ÁÏ Seeks Immediate Halt to Trump’s Transgender Service Member Ban
BALTIMORE — The Íøºì±¬ÁÏ and the law firm Covington & Burling LLP today asked a judge to immediately halt to the Trump administration’s ban on transge...
Issue Areas: LGBTQ Rights
Court case: Stone v. Trump
Sep 12, 2017
Íøºì±¬ÁÏ Mourns Edie Windsor
NEW YORK — Edith Windsor, whose landmark Supreme Court case struck down the Defense of Marriage Act in 2013 and granted same-sex married couples federal recognition for the first...
Issue Areas: LGBTQ Rights
Sep 07, 2017
Íøºì±¬ÁÏ Comment on Justice Department Position in Masterpiece Cakeshop SCOTUS Case
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department filed a brief today with the Supreme Court arguing that businesses that are open to the public have a constitutional right to discriminate aga...
Issue Areas: LGBTQ Rights
Court case: Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission
Aug 28, 2017
Íøºì±¬ÁÏ Files Lawsuit Challenging Trump’s Transgender Service Member Ban
MARYLAND — The Íøºì±¬ÁÏ and Covington & Burling LLP today filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration challenging the president’s directive banni...
Issue Areas: LGBTQ Rights
Court case: Stone v. Trump
Aug 11, 2017
Íøºì±¬ÁÏ Files Legal Action Moving Gavin Grimm Case Forward in District Court
GLOUCESTER COUNTY, Virginia — The Íøºì±¬ÁÏ today filed papers ending Gavin Grimm’s request for an immediate halt to the Gloucester County School Board’s...
Issue Areas: LGBTQ Rights
Court case: Grimm v. Gloucester County School Board
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