Tag Archives: Lambda Legal

LOUISIANA: Lambda Legal Files Appeal Of Marriage Ruling To Supreme Court

Via Lambda Legal: Lambda Legal and the lawyers representing Forum for Equality Louisiana and seven same-sex Louisiana couples today asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review September’s U.S. District Court ruling upholding Louisiana’s discriminatory marriage ban. The groups are seeking U.S. Supreme Court review in advance of the hearing in the case, Robicheaux v. Caldwell, before the U.S. 5th Circuit …

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BREAKING: Fourth Circuit Court DENIES Marriage Stay For South Carolina

UPDATE: Lambda Legal reacts via press release: Today, the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit denied the State of South Carolina’s motion to stay last week’s U.S. District Court ruling striking down the state’s discriminatory marriage ban, setting the stage for marriages to begin for same-sex couples at Noon on Thursday, November 20. South Carolina’s Attorney General filed …

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OHIO: Lambda Legal And ACLU Jointly Petition SCOTUS For Marriage Review

Lambda Legal and the ACLU are first in the coming wave of demands that SCOTUS review last week’s ruling by the Sixth Circuit Court.  From their Ohio petition: These cases are about love, from birth to death. The relationships at the heart of each case involve the love spouses share, with each other and with the children they jointly raise, …

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SOUTH CAROLINA: Federal Court Could Rule On Marriage Case By November 3rd

Via the Post & Courier: A lawsuit filed by two Charleston women seeking to bring gay marriage to South Carolina will move more quickly after a federal judge on Friday denied an attorney’s request for extra time to file responses and after attorneys agreed not to pursue hearings that could have delayed the case. That means U.S. District Judge Richard …

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Lambda Legal Sues Social Security Adminstration On Behalf Of Texas Widow

Via press release: Today Lambda Legal filed suit against the Social Security Administration (SSA) on behalf of Kathy Murphy, a Texas widow denied spousal benefits after the death of her wife, and the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare (the National Committee), arguing that denying Social Security benefits to same-sex spouses because they live in states that discriminate …

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FRC Praises Puerto Rico Judge

“Judge Pérez-Giménez serves as a model of judicial restraint in the face of an epidemic of federal judges legislating from the bench on the issue of marriage. It is time for other courts to follow his example, and the Supreme Court shouldn’t allow activist lower courts to redefine states’ marriage laws.  Judge Pérez-Giménez not only rejected the constitutional arguments for …

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PUERTO RICO: Lambda Legal To Appeal “Aberrant” Marriage Lawsuit Dismissal

Via press release from Lambda Legal: “The court’s ruling directly conflicts with the wave of recent decisions finding these marriage bans unconstitutional and perpetuates the discrimination and harm done to same-sex Puerto Rican couples and their families,” said Omar Gonzalez-Pagan, Staff Attorney for Lambda Legal. “It defies the unmistakable import of the Windsor decision and flies in the face of …

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PUERTO RICO: Lambda Legal Tells Court To Issue Summary Marriage Judgment

From their brief: As of this filing, thirty states and the District of Columbia recognize the constitutional right of same-sex couples to marry. Indeed, a remarkable and nearly unbroken seismic wave of federal court rulings across the country has struck down state statutory and constitutional marriage bans similar to Puerto Rico’s ban. Numerous federal courts have held that laws prohibiting …

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ARIZONA: Lambda Legal Calls For Immediate Ruling In Marriage Case

Via press release: Lambda Legal today urged U.S. District Court Judge John Sedwick to issue an immediate ruling striking down Arizona’s discriminatory marriage ban. Lambda Legal Senior Counsel Jennifer C. Pizer said:”Nelda and Karen have been waiting since the Eisenhower Administration; the time is now. None of these loving and committed couples should have to wait even one day longer …

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SOUTH CAROLINA: Lambda Legal Sues

Via press release: Today Lambda Legal, in partnership with South Carolina Equality, filed a federal lawsuit in the United States District Court of South Carolina arguing that South Carolina is obligated to allow same-sex couples to marry. Governor Haley and Attorney General Wilson vowed to continue to apply the laws banning marriage for same-sex couples even after the U.S. Supreme …

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BREAKING: Ninth Circuit Court Strikes Down Marriage Bans In Nevada & Idaho

Can you STAND IT? Read the ruling. UPDATE: Via press release from the National Center for Lesbian Rights. Today’s decision, written by Judge Stephen Reinhardt, holds that “Idaho and Nevada’s marriage laws, by preventing same-sex couples from marrying and refusing to recognize same-sex marriages celebrated elsewhere, impose profound legal, financial, social and psychic harms on numerous citizens of those states.” …

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LOUISIANA: Lambda Legal Joins Appeal Team Before Fifth Circuit Court

Via press release: Lambda Legal is joining the legal team representing a total of seven Louisiana same-sex couples and the Forum for Equality Louisiana, the state’s LGBT rights organization, in their appeal to the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals of last month’s U.S. District Court ruling upholding Louisiana’s discriminatory marriage ban. “Only one federal court since Windsor has concluded …

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TODAY: SCOTUS Conference On Marriage

A reminder from Lambda Legal: On September 29, the Supreme Court will assemble for a private conference where they will take their first look at potentially hearing one or more of the pending cases. All of the marriage cases decided by the federal courts of appeal since the DOMA ruling are scheduled for this conference. Seven petitions to hear the …

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Which Legal Team Will Get To SCOTUS?

The New York Times reports on the “dueling” going on to be the legal team to argue for same-sex marriage before the Supreme Court. In a half-dozen briefs filed in recent weeks, some of the best lawyers in the nation spent many pages arguing that their case was the right one in which to establish a nationwide right to same-sex …

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PUERTO RICO: Lambda Legal Files For Swift Overturn Of Same-Sex Marriage Ban

Via Lambda Legal: Today in the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, Lambda Legal filed a motion for summary judgment seeking to end the discriminatory ban on marriage for same-sex couples. Lambda Legal joined the lawsuit, Conde v. García Padilla, in June on behalf of five gay and lesbian couples and Puerto Rico Para Tod@s, an …

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ARIZONA: Federal Judge Orders State To Recognize Marriage On Death Certificate

Via press release from Lambda Legal: A federal district court judge ordered the state of Arizona today to provide a death certificate that accurately reflects a recently deceased Green Valley man’s marriage to another man. Lambda Legal had requested a temporary restraining order last week on behalf of 69-year-old Fred McQuire, surviving husband of George Martinez, who died August 28 …

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Lambda Legal: An Arizona Love Story

Clip recap: Tomorrow Lambda Legal will ask the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona to order the State of Arizona to provide an accurate death certificate to Fred McQuire for his husband, George Martinez, who died on August 28. Fred, 69, and his late husband, George, 62, of Green Valley, both veterans of the U.S. Armed Forces, met …

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BREAKING: Supreme Court Lists ALL Marriage Cases For Consideration On 9/29

Via the Wall Street Journal: Mark your calendars: the Supreme Court is scheduled to consider its next steps on gay marriage when the justices meet for the first time since their summer break. The court on Wednesday listed gay marriage petitions from five states – Indiana, Oklahoma, Utah, Virginia and Wisconsin – for consideration at its Sept. 29 private conference. …

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ARIZONA: Lambda Legal Files For Death Certificate Marriage Recognition

Via press release: Today Lambda Legal filed emergency papers asking the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona to order the State of Arizona to provide an accurate death certificate to Fred McQuire for his husband, George Martinez, who passed away early Thursday morning. “This is what we mean when we say every moment counts for same-sex couples whose …

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