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12 May 2014, 10:41 am
In fact, the largest national survey of transgender people to date, the National Transgender Discrimination Survey, found that that about one-fifth of all transgender adults are veterans, making transgender people approximately twice as likely as others to serve in the military. [read post]
18 Apr 2014, 11:55 am
David Gans is the Director of the Human Rights, Civil Rights & Citizenship Program at the Constitutional Accountability Center. [read post]
18 Mar 2014, 2:03 pm
The disagreements have centered on gay rights and representation in the churches. [read post]
6 Mar 2014, 4:10 am
National Center for Lesbian Rights announced yesterday that it has filed a state court lawsuit challenging Wyoming's statutory ban on same-sex marriage and the state's refusal to recognize same-sex marriages performed elsewhere. [read post]
28 Feb 2014, 8:30 am
I mean, you like that too, right? [read post]
27 Feb 2014, 6:21 am
” And at the Constitutional Accountability Center’s Text and History Blog, David Gans compares legislation in Arizona and Kansas with the challenges to the Affordable Care Act’s contraception mandate, arguing that “[t]he efforts to give businesses a right to deny women access to contraceptive coverage and to legalize discrimination against gay men and lesbians are joined at the hip. [read post]
25 Feb 2014, 10:19 am
If you missed the talk (or even if you didn't), here are some organizations working on transgender legal issues:Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund(New York)Transgender Law Center(Oakland & San Francisco)Lambda Legal Transgender Rights page(National, headquarters in New York with four regional offices)National Center for Transgender EqualityWashington, DC)National Center for Lesbian Rights Transgender Law… [read post]
14 Feb 2014, 8:59 am
A 1997 National Constitution Center survey found that some 84% of Americans believe that the Constitution states that “all men are equal. [read post]
30 Jan 2014, 9:01 pm
Was the Ninth Circuit Right That Supreme Court Authority Can Implicitly Erase Earlier Circuit Precedent? [read post]
22 Jan 2014, 4:00 am
Equality Florida Institute and the National Center for Lesbian Rights issued a press release announcing the planned filing of the lawsuit. [read post]
7 Jan 2014, 9:30 pm
But beginning in that decade, African Americans and other civil rights activists, communists, labor union activists, poor people, Beats and hippies, gay men and lesbians, women, Vietnam War protestors and student activists, and young, urban minority men all contested their constitutionality. [read post]
6 Jan 2014, 9:30 pm
In this detailed local history of the gay employment rights movement, Turk discusses the work of a number of advocacy organizations in the state—including the ACLU of Southern California, the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center, the Metropolitan Community Church, the Society for International Rights, the Committee for Homosexual Freedom, the Committee on Rights within the Gay Community, and the National Gay Rights… [read post]
6 Jan 2014, 8:30 pm
(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2014)Very few have attempted to bridge the divide between the business and the international communities., The most successful serious attempt to bridge this divide in recent years has centered on the work of John Ruggie, who as the Special Representative of the UN Secretary General oversaw a long process leading to the creation of a set of Guiding Principles for Business and Human Rights endorsed by the U. [read post]
6 Jan 2014, 3:30 am
In this detailed local history of the gay employment rights movement, Turk discusses the work of a number of advocacy organizations in the state—including the ACLU of Southern California, the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center, the Metropolitan Community Church, the Society for International Rights, the Committee for Homosexual Freedom, the Committee on Rights within the Gay Community, and the National Gay Rights… [read post]
20 Dec 2013, 1:07 pm
The case that got us here (brought by the ACLU and the National Center for Lesbian Rights), involved six plaintiff couples, including Jen Roper and Angelique Neuman. [read post]
12 Dec 2013, 12:57 pm
This brief is in a Ninth Circuit university student dismissal case, and it’s filed on behalf of the Foundation for Individual Rights and the Student Press Law Center, in Oyama v. [read post]
9 Dec 2013, 9:09 am
This ultimately resulted in the national repeal of bans on military service by gay and lesbian people and a 2005 decision by the South African high court extending marriage protections to same-sex couples. [read post]
10 Nov 2013, 8:30 am
The National Center for Lesbian Rights issued a press release on the case. [read post]
4 Oct 2013, 5:25 pm
Just a few minutes ago, California Governor Jerry Brown signed into law a bill that I have worked on for the past two years, alongside the National Center for Lesbian Rights and the Children's Advocacy Institute at the University of San Diego School of Law. [read post]
1 Aug 2013, 9:41 am
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Thursday, August 1, 2013:Ontario woman, 85, charged with stunt driving in fatal crash U.S. government fights to keep domestic spy powers A Home for Our Legal Technology Relics 20-Week Abortion Bans and the Pathway to the US Supreme Court Davis Polk Takes The Gloves Off In Fight With Legal Recruiter over seven-figure fee In Alabama first, judge grants lesbian mom full visitation rights Greenwald vs. [read post]
