Governments attempting to use the tired “public morality” excuse to curb LGBT-positive speech: you’re on notice. On November 19th the UN Human Rights Committee issued a landmark ruling in Fedotova v. Russia. The plaintiff is a lesbian who was arrested and fined 1500 rubles in 2009 for displaying signs that read “Homosexuality is normal” and [...]
Latin America has long been an area of the world with very weak reproductive rights protections. All too familiarly, strong religious and other socially conservative interests in most Latin American countries (Cuba being the most notable exception) have successfully framed abortion law as being about traditional morality and “family values,” not women’s safety, health, and privacy. A [...]
Yes, on Monday June 4, hunter of justice will be born again. Thanks to fabulous web designer Barbara Kerr, the old blog is getting a new look. If the migration goes as well as it is supposed to, all of the rss feeds and email subscriptions will also migrate seamlessly. If you experience any problems, [...]
In the wake of the Ninth Circuit's opinion in Perry v. Brown, Lambda Legal is filing a lawsuit today in U.S. District Court in Nevada alleging that the state marriage law violates the U.S. Constitution because it excludes same-sex couples. The suit, Sevcik v. Sandoval, is being litigated solely under the Equal Protection Clause. Nevada is [...]
The first DoMA challenge to go before a Court of Appeals was argued this morning, and, if I were plaintiffs' counsel, I would be pretty optimistic. Two judges on the panel – Chief Judge Lynch and Judge Boudin – look like probable votes to declare the law unconstitutional. For details, see Prop8TrialTracker's blogging of the arguments, or [...]