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2 Mar 2011, 6:00 pm
"Rights group takes a step-by-step approach on gay marriage; Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders, or GLAD, is arguing that it is unconstitutional to discriminate against gay couples who are already legally married; It hopes its incremental approach will lead to a broader ruling by the Supreme Court": David G. [read post]
4 Mar 2009, 2:05 pm
The three firms, especially Foley, gave a huge assist to the Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders in filing suit to overturn the federal law that defines marriage as a union between a man and a woman. [read post]
8 May 2012, 5:00 am by Irene C. Olszewski, Esq.
I received the following press release from GLAD: CT High Courts Says Employers Can be Liable for Anti-Gay Harassment Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders and Connecticut Employment Lawyers Association Applaud Ruling Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders (GLAD) and the Connecticut Employment Lawyers Association (CELA) applaud a May 4 ruling from the Connecticut Supreme Court that employers can be liable if… [read post]
26 Jun 2006, 8:05 pm
Mary Norton and Mary Becker [GLAD profiles], represented by an attorney with the Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders (GLAD) [advocacy website], said the law [read post]
9 Sep 2011, 11:02 am by Irene C. Olszewski, Esq.
Gay& Lesbian Advocates & Defenders has published its guide, Protecting Families: Standards for LGBT Families which is a must-read for all lesbian and gay couples. [read post]
14 Nov 2003, 6:49 am
In Friday's civil rights news, Lambda Legal, an organization that advocates for gay and lesbian civil rights, reports that Cirque du Soleil recently responded to allegations they discriminated against a gymnast by firing him [read post]
20 Oct 2007, 6:51 am
The American Civil Liberties Union, Lambda Legal, the National Center for Lesbian Rights, Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders and the Transgender Law Center have this to say about the current version of ENDA: "Definitions of who is protected by... [read post]
3 Mar 2009, 7:03 pm
Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders (GLAD) has filed a challenge to the federal definition of marriage codified in Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act, which prevents the federal... [read post]
1 Dec 2010, 9:10 pm by Dan Ernst
[The Yale University Library has issued the following press release.]Over 30 years’ worth of records documenting gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender legal history are being donated to Yale University by Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders (GLAD). [read post]
1 Aug 2008, 9:48 am
You can also read here, the home page for GLAD (Gay & Lesbian Advocates and Defenders). [read post]
19 May 2009, 11:04 am
Two school districts representing thousands of Tennessee students were sued Tuesday for blocking access to web sites discussing lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues, but are not filtering sites advocating “reparative” therapy to change their lifestyle away from being gay. [read post]
8 Jul 2010, 1:14 pm by Victor Li
., lawyers from Foley Hoag, Sullivan & Worcester, and Jenner & Block worked closely with the Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders (GLAD) in successfully challenging section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). [read post]
28 Oct 2007, 6:39 am
I just found the following amici curiae briefs for the Rhode Island case, available on the website of the Gay and Lesbian Advocates & Defenders (GLAD), including GLAD's own brief, authored in part by Mary Bonauto, who was lead counsel in the Goodridge case; another brief by various conflict of laws, civil rights and family law professors, with California's Barbara Cox, Erwin Chemerinsky and [read post]
27 May 2010, 10:39 pm by Paul Caron
Following up on my prior post, Lawsuit Challenges Application of DOMA to Tax Code: yesterday, Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders issued a press release, GLAD Files Amended Complaint in DOMA Challenge: GLAD filed an amended complaint this week in our lawsuit challenging Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage... [read post]
23 Aug 2007, 11:45 am
Continuing TaxProf Blog coverage of Tax Court Trial to Decide Deductibility of Sex-Change Operation: from the Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders (GLAD) press release:The potentially precedent-setting case O'Donnabhain v. [read post]
3 Mar 2009, 12:55 pm
Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders has filed the first multi-plaintiff legal challenge the application of Section 3 of the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) to 1,138 federal statutes (including the Internal Revenue Code): Gill v. [read post]
3 Mar 2009, 1:49 pm
Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders (GLAD) filed a 92 page complaint today in the US District Court for Massachusetts. [read post]
23 Aug 2010, 2:06 am by Family Law
Last week, the DOJ and parties represented by Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders agreed to a stay of the district court’s decision in Gill v. [read post]
16 Jul 2009, 2:01 pm
GLBT activists advance the troubling analogies to advocate gay rights, while blacks contest the analogies in order to dismiss gay rights. [read post]
23 Sep 2009, 5:20 am
(Ranzy is also closing her practice.)If the two women seek to marry again, said Janson Wu, an attorney at the New England legal organization Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders (GLAD), their inability to terminate their marriage will pose serious problems: a second marriage with the first still on the books would make them law-violating bigamists. [read post]