All posts tagged "gill"
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Lambda Legal Files Federal Lawsuit Seeking Marriage Equality in Nevada
Today, Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund took what one of its lawyers calls “a strategic step” in the national effort to advance marriage equality...
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In Dean Hara’s Mission to Defeat DOMA, Echoes of His Deceased Husband, Rep. Gerry Studds
Former Rep. Gerry Studds (D-Mass.), who died in October 2006, was the first out gay member of Congress back in 1983. He was one of...
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Federal Appeals Court Takes on DOMA in Historic Hearing on Wednesday in Boston: What to Know
On Wednesday morning, April 4, a three-judge panel of the...
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SLDN, DOJ Agree to 60-Day Delay in Case Challenging Gay Servicemembers’ Spousal Benefits
Servicemembers Legal Defense Network, the LGBT military legal advocacy group, agreed to delay its challenge to military policies that the organization says discriminate against servicemembers...
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Barney Frank to Marry, DOMA Will Limit Federal Recognition of Congressman’s Spouse
He’s retiring from Congress...
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SLDN Lawyers Tell Court “American Servicemembers and Their Families Are Among DOMA’s Victims”
Today, lawyers for Servicemembers Legal Defense Network took the next step in their lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of unequal spousal benefits granted to servicemembers in...
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SLDN Files DOMA Challenge, Seeking Equal Benefits for Same-Sex Military Spouses
[Photo: Servicemembers Legal Defense Network executive director Aubrey Sarvis, left, speaks at a news conference on Oct. 27, 2011, announcing the organization’s filing of a...
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House GOP Leadership Defends DOMA at the First Circuit
On Friday, May 20, the Republican members of the House Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group filed a motion to intervene in two cases challenging the constitutionality...
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The Fallout: DOJ Drops First Circuit DOMA Defense; Immigration and DADT Questions Raised
The fallout has been rapid and expansive from the Feb. 23 letter from Attorney General Eric Holder to House Speaker John Boehner regarding the government’s...
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DOJ Files DOMA Defense in First Circuit Cases
Today, the Department of Justice filed its defense of the Defense of Marriage Act in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in...
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Tricky Timing
Two weeks before Election Day, the U.S. Department of Justice may be in the position of going to the U.S. First Circuit Court of Appeals...
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An Unappealing Election Matter: Defending DOMA
Two weeks before Election Day, the U.S. Department of Justice may be in the position of going to the U.S. First Circuit Court of Appeals...
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McCollum’s (Self Inflicted, Anti-LGBT) Travails
Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum (R), running for governor, has had a rough year. Most of it is all of his own creation, but, seriously,...
