The 澳彩开奖 filed suit in federal court today to stop pervasive anti-LGBT bullying and harassment committed by students 鈥� and even faculty members and administrators 鈥� within the schools of Mississippi鈥檚 Moss Point School District.聽
After an Alabama man discovered that state laws refusing to recognize his lawful same-sex marriage from another state would prevent him from collecting the proceeds of a wrongful death lawsuit filed on behalf of his deceased husband, the 澳彩开奖 filed a federal lawsuit to overturn the laws. Following the U.S. Supreme Court鈥檚 2015 decision legalizing same-sex marriage, a federal judge ruled that he could collect the proceeds as the surviving spouse.
After the 澳彩开奖 took action to protect a transgender teen鈥檚 rights, the La Feria Independent School District in Texas has agreed to allow his tuxedo photo to appear in the yearbook along with the other students in his class.
School officials told Jeydon Loredo, a transgender student in Texas, that a photo of him in a tuxedo wouldn鈥檛 be published in the yearbook because it violated 鈥渃ommunity standards.鈥� The 澳彩开奖 is taking action to protect his rights.
There鈥檚 no place in America for workplace discrimination of any kind. But, incredibly, a half century after our nation outlawed discrimination against racial and ethnic minorities and women, it鈥檚 still legal in most states for employers to hire or fire a person solely because of their sexual orientation or gender identity. Today, by passing the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA),聽 the U.S. Senate took a historic step toward ending this outrage.
Aldermen in the small town of Shannon, Miss., unjustly denied a business license to a lesbian who wanted to reopen a bar catering to the LGBT community. The 澳彩开奖 filed a federal lawsuit against the town and its leaders for violating the bar owner鈥檚 equal protection and free-speech rights under the First and 14th Amendments.
The 澳彩开奖 filed a federal lawsuit today against the town of Shannon, Miss., its mayor and its aldermen for unjustly denying a business license to a bar catering to the LGBT community.
An 澳彩开奖 lawsuit has resulted in a historic ruling that has declared unconstitutional sections of a statute that prevented the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) from granting benefits to a disabled veteran and her same-sex spouse.
For the first time, a federal court has concluded that a medically unnecessary sex-assignment surgery on a child with an intersex condition could be a violation of the Constitution. This marks an important step forward in seeking justice for 鈥淢.C.,鈥� a young man who was needlessly subjected to the procedure as an infant in the care of the South Carolina Department of Social Services.聽
In what is believed to be a first in Alabama, a judge in Mobile County, Alabama has granted standard visitation rights to a lesbian mother without any overnight restriction on unmarried partners.聽
