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4 Nov 2009, 1:39 pm
If gay and lesbian advocates can have and publish this information, would it have a chilling effect on the public expression of anti-gay viewpoints? [read post]
28 Oct 2009, 8:01 pm
Mary Bonauto, civil rights project director for the Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders (Vote No on 1) debated Brian Souchet with Stand for Marriage Maine (Vote Yes on 1) tonight at an event sponsored by WMTW-TV, the Portland Press Herald, the Kennebec Journal and the Waterville Morning Sentinel. [read post]
21 Oct 2009, 6:03 am
Mary Bonauto, civil rights project director for Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders, and Marc Mutty, chairman of Stand for Marriage Maine, will debate Question 1, a people's veto attempt of the state's new same-sex marriage law. [read post]
16 Oct 2009, 1:33 pm
He works as a staff lawyer at Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders in Boston. [read post]
2 Oct 2009, 10:34 am
Office of Personnel Management, filed last winter by Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders in Boston, an equal protection claim based on the 5th Amendment is asserted against the federal Defense of Marriage Act on behalf of married same-sex spouses from Massachusetts who have been denied federal benefits to which they would otherwise be entitled. [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]
22 Sep 2009, 6:13 am
Lambda Legal, which advocates for civil rights for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered people, is asking the state Supreme Court to allow it to intervene on behalf of Fair Wisconsin, which is defending the domestic partnerships established in the budget Democratic Gov. [read post]
19 Sep 2009, 2:14 pm
.), the constitutional challenge to Section 3 of the federal Defense of Marriage Act filed in federal court in Boston last winter by Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders (GLAD). [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]
18 Sep 2009, 8:46 am
The suit was filed [JURIST report] in March in the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts [official website] by the Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders (GLAD) [ [read post]
16 Sep 2009, 2:08 am
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Georgetown Law Professor Chosen for EEOC
"President Barack Obama has decided to nominate Chai Feldblum, a Georgetown University law professor who has advocated for flexibility in the workplace and for expanded rights for gays and lesbians, to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the White House said Monday. [read post]
22 Aug 2009, 7:41 am
In their most recent filing in the California DOMA challenge (which probably is about to get dismissed for lack of standing of the plaintiffs, which is okay because there is a much better-organized and more convincing DOMA challenge already working its way through the courts out of Massachusetts, filed by Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders in Boston), the U.S. [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]
15 Aug 2009, 2:25 am
The difficulty with relying on the Thirteenth Amendment is that it would require extending its reach to groups that the Court has never recognized as falling under it: namely women, gays and lesbians, transsexuals, and transvestites, and the disabled. [read post]
20 Jul 2009, 5:13 am
The first was brought by the Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders, under the leadership of Mary Bonauto, who has to be one of the ablest and most effective civil rights lawyers in the country today ... [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]
29 Jun 2009, 5:43 am
the exemptions, and so did Mary Bonauto, civil rights project director for Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders. [read post]
22 Jun 2009, 5:09 am
" Furthermore, several GLBT Democrats subsequently pulled out of a fundraiser for the DNC sponsored by gay and lesbian rights organizations.Some of the outcry regarding the brief is absolutely justifiable. [read post]
15 Jun 2009, 11:22 am
(For example, Mary Bonauto, civil rights project director for Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders, told the NY Times that the stronger religious-liberty exemptions were "no big deal. [read post]
13 Jun 2009, 2:42 pm
The suit filed in federal court in Boston by Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders (GLAD) doesn't even bother challenging Section 2, focusing entirely on Section 3, which is the much more important (and injurious) provision. [read post]
