Press Releases
about LGBTQ Rights
Aug 26, 2016
North Carolina Blocked From Enforcing Anti-Transgender Law Against Plaintiffs While Lawsuit Proceeds
RALEIGH, N.C. — A federal court today granted a request to stop the University of North Carolina from enforcing H.B. 2, the state law that bans many transgender people from restr...
Issue Areas:
LGBTQ Rights
Aug 22, 2016
District Court Issues Injunction Against Guidance Protecting Transgender Students
“We will continue to file lawsuits representing transgender students and litigate them to the fullest extent of the law...”
Issue Areas:
LGBTQ Rights
Aug 12, 2016
District Court Hears Challenge to Federal Guidance Protecting Transgender Students and Employees
FORT WORTH, Texas – Five leading national civil and LGBT rights organizations urged the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas to reject an effort to block the Ob...
Issue Areas:
LGBTQ Rights
Court case: Texas v. U.S.
Aug 03, 2016
ACLU Comment on Supreme Court Stay in Virginia Transgender Restroom Case
NEW YORK — The U.S. Supreme Court has issued a stay in the case of G.G. v. Gloucester County School Board. A federal district court in Virginia had ordered the board to let a tra...
Issue Areas:
LGBTQ Rights
Aug 01, 2016
Federal Court Hears Argument for Transgender Clients in Lawsuit Against North Carolina’s Anti-LGBT Law
Legal Groups Argue That HB 2 Should Be Stopped Immediately
Issue Areas:
LGBTQ Rights
Jul 28, 2016
Chelsea Manning Faces New Charges, Indefinite Solitary Confinement Related to Suicide Attempt
Government Continues to Deny Manning Access to Health Care
Issue Areas:
LGBTQ Rights
Court case: Manning v. Hagel, et al.
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