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RELATIONSHIPS
Fisher-Borne v. Smith: Seeking the right to obtain second parent adoptions, and challenging the state’s ban on marriage for same-sex couples
Gerber v. Cooper: Seeking the right to obtain second parent adoptions, and challenging the state’s ban on marriage for same-sex couples (Seeking swift action because of serious medical condition of one member of each plaintiff couple)
VICTORY! Whitewood v. Corbett: Federal case seeking the freedom to marry in Pennsylvania
VICTORY! Bostic v. Schaefer (Harris Class Action): Same-sex couples challenge Virginia’s ban on marriage for same-sex couples and the state’s refusal to recognize marriages same-sex couples have legally entered elsewhere
Wolf and Schumacher v. Walker: Same-sex couples challenge Wisconsin’s ban on marriage for same sex couples and the state’s refusal to recognize marriages same-sex couples have legally entered elsewhere
VICTORY! Evans v. Utah: Same-sex couples challenge Utah’s failure to recognize legal marriages that were entered into after a federal court struck down the state ban, but before the U.S. Supreme Court temporarily halted new marriages from taking place.
Caspar v. Snyder: Same-sex couples challenge Michigan’s failure to recognize legal marriages that were entered into after a federal court struck down the state ban, but before the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals temporarily halted new marriages from taking place.
Obergefell v. Himes: Same-sex couples challenge Ohio’s refusal to recognize marriages same-sex couples have legally entered elsewhere.
VICTORY! Barrier v. Vasterling: Same-sex couples challenge Missouri’s refusal to recognize marriages same-sex couples have legally entered elsewhere.
Grimsley v. Scott: Same-sex couples challenge Florida’s refusal to recognize marriages same-sex couples have legally entered elsewhere.
VICTORY! Rummell v. Kitzhaber: Same-sex couples challenge Oregon’s ban on marriage for same sex couples and the state’s refusal to recognize marriages same-sex couples have legally entered elsewhere
Fujii v. Governor: Same-sex couples challenge Indiana’s ban on marriage for same sex couples and the state’s refusal to recognize marriages same-sex couples have legally entered elsewhere
Rolando v. Fox: Same-sex couples challenge Montana’s refusal to recognize marriages same-sex couples have legally entered elsewhere.
Aaron-Brush v. Bentley: Same-sex couples challenge Alabama’s ban on marriage for same sex couples and the state’s refusal to recognize marriages same-sex couples have legally entered elsewhere
Bloechl-Karlsen v. Walker: Same-sex couples challenge Wisconsin’s failure to recognize legal marriages that were entered into after a federal court struck down the state ban, but before the judge temporarily halted new marriages from taking place.
Marie v. Moser: Same-sex couples challenge Kansas’s ban on marriage for same sex couples
PARENTING
Fisher-Borne v. Smith: Seeking the right to obtain second parent adoptions, and challenging the state’s ban on marriage for same-sex couples
Gerber v. Cooper: Seeking the right to obtain second parent adoptions, and challenging the state’s ban on marriage for same-sex couples (Seeking swift action because of serious medical condition of one member of each plaintiff couple)
Stewart and Stewart v. Heinman: A challenge to Nebraska’s policy that bans gay and lesbian individuals from serving as foster parents
HIV/AIDS
VICTORY! Henderson et al. v. Thomas et al.: Challenging the segregation and restriction of inmates with HIV
DISCRIMINATION
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) Filing Against Taco John: Challenging a fast food chain for requiring an employee to wear a name tag that read “Gaytard.”
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Dawson v. H & H Electric: Challenging an employer for firing an employee after she transitioned from male to female on the job.
Craig and Mullins v. Masterpiece Cakeshop: Challenging a cakeshop for refusing to sell a same-sex couple a cake for their wedding
TRANSGENDER
Manning v. Hagel, et al.: Seeking to force the Army to provide medically necessary treatment for a prisoner’s gender dysphoria diagnosis.
VICTORY! K.L. v. State of Alaska: Allowing transgender individuals to correct the gender marker on their driver’s licenses without undergoing major surgery
YOUTH & SCHOOLS
VICTORY! A.W. and C.W. v. Davis County School District: Challenging the removal of a book about a family with same-sex parents from a school district’s libraries
RELATIONSHIPS
VICTORY! Griego v. Oliver: Same-sex couples challenge New Mexico’s ban on marriage for same-sex couples and the state’s refusal to recognize marriages same-sex couples have legally entered elsewhere
VICTORY! Windsor v. United States: Challenging the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA)
Appling v. Doyle: Defending Wisconsin domestic partnerships
Bassett v. Snyder: Challenge to discriminatory domestic partner benefits law
Donaldson and Guggenheim v. Montana: Fighting for relationship protections in a state with a marriage ban
Schmidt and Schuh v. Alaska: Same-sex couples challenge Alaska’s discriminatory tax law
Glossip v. Missouri Department of Transportation and Highway Patrol Employees’ Retirement System: Attempt to secure survivor benefits for domestic partners
Lazaro and Matos v. Orr: Freedom to Marry in Illinois
Prop 8 Case (Hollingsworth v. Perry): Federal challenge to Proposition 8
VICTORY! Advocacy Encourages H&R Block to Accommodate Gay Couples in Civil Unions
VICTORY! Alaska CLU v. State of Alaska: State employee domestic partner benefits
Challenge to Florida’s Anti-Gay Relationship Initiative: Relationship protections for same-sex couples
Citizens For Equal Protection v. Bruning: Nebraska marriage amendment challenge
Deane & Polyak v. Conaway: Maryland state marriage lawsuit
Domestic Partnership Advocacy on Behalf of Konica Minolta Employee
Dunnum v. Wisconsin: State employee domestic partner benefits
VICTORY! Fresno Hospital Discrimination: Lesbian barred from visiting partner
VICTORY! Levitt & Dakota v. New Mexico Retiree Health Authority: State employee domestic partner benefits
Li & Kennedy v. Oregon: Oregon state marriage lawsuit
VICTORY! In re Marriage Cases: The case that won marriage in California, before Prop. 8 took it away.
VICTORY! Salt Lake City Domestic Partnerships: City employee same-sex partner benefits
Samuels & Gallagher v. New York: New York state marriage lawsuit
VICTORY! Snetsinger v. Montana University: University employee domestic partner benefits
Strauss v. Horton: Challenge to California’s Prop. 8
VICTORY! Wiessmann v. State College Area School District: Challenge to discriminatory domestic partner benefits policy
PARENTING
VICTORY! Gartner v. Iowa Department of Public Health: A challenge to Iowa’s refusal to list the wives of biological mothers on their children’s birth certificates
VICTORY! Burch v. Smarr: West Virginia child custody
VICTORY! Chandler v. Barker: Appeal of a “paramour” restriction on custody rights in Tennessee
VICTORY! Cole v. Arkansas: Challenge to Arkansas parenting ban for unmarried couples
VICTORY! In re: Gill: Challenge to Florida anti-gay adoption ban
VICTORY! In re: Hadaway: Georgia custody/adoption denial
VICTORY! Howard v. Arkansas: Arkansas foster care ban
VICTORY! Johnston v. MO Dept. of Social Services: Missouri foster care denial
VICTORY! Maniaci v. Kulstad: De-facto parenting case in Montana
DISCRIMINATION
VICTORY! Elane Photography, LLC v. Vanessa Willcock: Challenging a photography studio’s refusal take pictures for same-sex wedding ceremonies.
VICTORY! Advocacy on Behalf of Gay Men Verbally Abused by McDonald’s Staff
VICTORY! Christian Legal Society V. Martinez: Student club required to comply with the university’s non-discrimination policy
VICTORY!Cooley v. Forrest County Sheriff’s Department: Employment Discrimination by Mississippi Sheriff’s office
VICTORY! Exodus Parody: Defense of blogger’s free speech
Johnson v. Johnson: Texas prison abuse
VICTORY! Limon v. Kansas: Kansas prison sentencing discrimination
VICTORY! Collins v. United States: Challenge to military separation-pay discrimination
VICTORY! Baker and Linsley v. Wildflower Inn: Lesbian couple challenges Vermont inn’s illegal public accommodations discrimination
VICTORY! Keeton v. Anderson-Wiley: A counseling student seeks to be reinstated in her program after insisting on her right to counsel LGB clients that being gay is immoral
Ward v. Wilbanks: Challenging a counseling student’s discrimination against LGB clients
TRANSGENDER
Hispanic AIDS Forum v. Bruno: New York transgender discrimination
VICTORY! Kirk v. Arnold: Challenge to Illinois law denying transgender people accurate birth certificates
In re Rockefeller: New York denial of name change for transgender man
VICTORY!
Lovo-Lara Visa Petition: Immigration visa petition of transgender spouse
VICTORY! Schroer v. Library of Congress: Federal hiring discrimination by the Library of Congress
Seals v. Old Dominion Freight Lines, Inc.: Hiring discrimination
VICTORY! Fields v. Smith: Transgender inmates barred from medical treatment
YOUTH & SCHOOLS
VICTORY! Boyd High GSA v. Boyd Co. Board of Education: Kentucky high school gay-straight alliance
VICTORY! Franks v. Metropolitan Board of Public Education: Access to pro-LGBT sites blocked.
VICTORY! Fulton, Mississippi Prom Discrimination: School refuses to allow same-sex date at prom.
VICTORY! Gillman v. Holmes County School District: Florida student free speech
VICTORY! Gonzalez v. School Board of Okeechobee County: Florida high school gay-straight alliance
VICTORY! Laccone v. I.C. Norcom High School: Virginia student free speech
VICTORY! Morrison v. Boyd County Board of Education: Kentucky high school anti-harassment training
VICTORY! Myers v. Thornsberry: Webb City, MO t-shirt censorship
Nguon v. Wolf: Orange County, CA student harassment
VICTORY! Ohio School Censorship: Dublin, OH t-shirt censorship
VICTORY! Paramo v. Kern High School District: East Bakersfield, CA student newspaper censorship
VICTORY! PFLAG v. Camdenton R-III School District: Fighting unconstitutional censorship of LGBT-supportive websites by a Missouri school
VICTORY! PRIDE v. White County School District: Defense of Cleveland, Georgia gay-straight alliance
VICTORY! Ramona, CA Harvey Milk Censorship: School censors student’s project on Harvey Milk
VICTORY! R.G., et al. v. Koller, et al.: Hawai’i youth correctional facility anti-gay harassment
VICTORY! Russellville, Alabama School Prom Discrimination: School refuses to allow same-sex date at prom.
VICTORY! Sturgis v. Copiah County School District: Mississippi school refuses to allow student to wear a tuxedo for her yearbook photo.
Stop Anti-Gay Bullying: Seth’s Story: Seth and Bullying in Schools
Don’t Filter Me: Web Content Filtering In Schools: Preventing viewpoint-discriminatory censorship of positive LGBT web content in public schools
HIV/AIDS
ACLU of Massachusetts v. Kathleen Sebelius et al.: Fighting a ban on grants that could help victims of trafficking protect themselves from HIV
VICTORY! HIV Discrimination by Puerto Rico Cosmetology School: Cosmetology School Prohibits Student from Enrolling Because of HIV Status
Challenge to Change in New York HIV Testing Policy
Couture v. Belle Bonfils: Colorado HIV employment discrimination
VICTORY! Doe v. A Nebraska Restaurant: HIV employment discrimination
VICTORY! Doe v. Clinton: HIV employment discrimination by the U.S. State Department
VICTORY! Dugas v. Arkansas Board of Cosmetology: Cosmetology school dismissal HIV+ student
VICTORY! HIV Advocacy on Behalf of Peace Corps Volunteer
VICTORY! TSA HIV Discrimination: HIV employment discrimination by the Transportation Security Administration
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