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14 May 2009, 2:23 pm
He evidently found inadequate the New Hampshire legislature's last-minute attempt to strengthen HB436's religious-liberty exemption.05/14/09 NY Times:According to the Times,Mary Bonauto, civil rights project director for Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders, a legal group in Boston, said Mr. [read post]
5 Sep 2012, 7:51 am by Irene C. Olszewski, Esq.
Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders is New England’s leading legal organization dedicated to ending discrimination based on sexual orientation, HIV status, and gender identity and expression. [read post]
11 Nov 2013, 9:01 pm by Joanna L. Grossman
  Gay rights advocates split over whether to insist on broader protection at the cost of reducing the likelihood of passage of the bill. [read post]
14 Jan 2016, 11:12 am by Kenneth Vercammen Esq. Edison
Members of the Bar Association tell me more stories of thecountless additional hours of work that must go into representinggays, lesbians, bisexual clients and their families.125At the public hearing on October 24, 2007, Ed Barocas, Legal Director of the American CivilLiberties Union of New Jersey13 stated in unequivocal terms that:By creating a separate system of rights and by injecting languageand titles not understood or easily incorporated into existing reallife events and transactions,… [read post]
4 Feb 2010, 6:26 pm by Kelly
O’Donnabhain, was the taxpayer/petitioner and was represented by GLAD, the Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders. [read post]
17 Jul 2007, 12:20 pm
Tax Court has never issued an opinion in a similar case, said Jennifer Levi, an attorney with Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders, the Boston-based legal organization representing O’Donnabhain. [read post]
5 Apr 2012, 1:30 pm by Alan J. Borsuk
Responding to questions from Gousha and audience members, Houck said the lifting of the “don’t ask, don’t tell” rules for gay and lesbian service members has gone very well (“so far, it just hasn’t been a big deal”) and that JAG Corps members have been defending detainees at the Guantanamo military prison aggressively and well. [read post]
16 Sep 2011, 11:09 am by Irene C. Olszewski, Esq.
  I’ve been paying attention though, and there are several items worth passing along: Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders (GLAD) responded to two August 15 filings by the U.S. [read post]
22 Jan 2016, 1:28 pm by Eugene Volokh
Gohn, 850 F.2d 361, 362 (8th Cir. 1988), in which a University of Arkansas student group that advocated for gay and lesbian rights (GLSA) was denied funding by the university. [read post]
9 May 2012, 12:04 pm by Lovechilde
When gay rights advocates seek recourse in the courts, is it so surprising? [read post]
9 May 2012, 12:04 pm by Lovechilde
When gay rights advocates seek recourse in the courts, is it so surprising? [read post]
11 Mar 2009, 2:08 pm
Defendant shall not interfere without legally justifiable cause as outlined in this order either with Plaintiffs' ability to advocate for tolerance, respect, and equality of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people or the other goals set forth in the Gay-Straight Alliance's constitution; d. [read post]
18 Sep 2009, 10:46 am
Ultimately it is up to Congress to change the law.09/18/09 LawDork, by attorney Chris Geidner:The DOJ's Motion to Dismiss (pdf) is measured in its defense of the Defense of Marriage Act, which doubtless will leave some unsatisfied, but it is far closer to the type of brief I'd expect the DOJ to file these days than the Smelt brief, which everyone agrees went too far.09/18/09 NY Times:Robert Raben, a legislative consultant who worked at the Justice Department during the Clinton… [read post]
15 Jul 2010, 10:55 am by Matt Cooper
In a case filed by the organization, Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders, the court found that DOMA violates the Equal Protection Clause by denying federal benefits to same-sex married couples while allowing benefits for opposite-sex married couples. [read post]
27 Jun 2015, 7:17 am by Paul Smith
  The first is over whether it was right for the Court, in Lawrence, to strike moral disapproval from the list of potential state justifications for discrimination against gay and lesbian people and couples. [read post]
13 Oct 2010, 9:13 pm by ireneolszewski
” In a separate case, filed by GLAD (Gay Lesbian Advocates and Defenders), known as Gill v. [read post]
17 Aug 2009, 5:53 am
[But] [t]he most powerful and important aspect of this new brief is its categorical statement that there is no rational basis for the arguments in favor of discrimination that are grounded in claims about procreation and child-rearing.News 08/18/09 Los Angeles Times: "It's simply wrong when they say there are reasonable arguments that can be made in support of [federal DOMA's] constitutionality," said Carisa Cunningham, director of public affairs for Gay &… [read post]