Sep 07, 2017
ACLU Comment on Justice Department Position in Masterpiece Cakeshop SCOTUS Case
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department filed a brief today with the Supreme Court arguing that businesses that are open to the public have a constitutional right to discriminate aga...
Issue Areas: LGBTQ Rights
Aug 28, 2017
ACLU Files Lawsuit Challenging Trump’s Transgender Service Member Ban
MARYLAND — The American Civil Liberties Union and Covington & Burling LLP today filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration challenging the president’s directive banni...
Issue Areas: LGBTQ Rights
Court case: Stone v. Trump
Aug 11, 2017
ACLU Files Legal Action Moving Gavin Grimm Case Forward in District Court
GLOUCESTER COUNTY, Virginia — The American Civil Liberties Union today filed papers ending Gavin Grimm’s request for an immediate halt to the Gloucester County School Board’s...
Issue Areas: LGBTQ Rights
Jul 26, 2017
ACLU Statement on Trump Banning Transgender Military Service Members
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump announced today that he is barring transgender people from serving in any capacity in the U.S. military. Joshua Block, senior staff attorney w...
Issue Areas: LGBTQ Rights
Jul 21, 2017
ACLU, Lambda Legal Challenge Fake Repeal of North Carolina's Discriminatory HB 2
RALEIGH – Today, the American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of North Carolina, and Lambda Legal announced they have taken steps to expand the federal lawsuit challenging North ...
Issue Areas: LGBTQ Rights
Jul 13, 2017
ACLU Statement on House Amendment to Prohibit Transgender Care for Military Members and Their Families
WASHINGTON — The House of Representatives will consider an amendment today to the National Defense Authorization Act, the annual defense policy bill, that prohibits transgender m...
Issue Areas: LGBTQ Rights
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