WASHINGTON — The American Sociological Association (ASA) filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit today supporting the fight to overturn gay marriage bans in Utah and Oklahoma and continuing its now 13-month effort to highlight the overwhelming body of social science research that confirms “children fare just as…
Joining his counterparts in New York and Connecticut, Vermont’s attorney general has requested that a federal court of appeals finds that the Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutionally denies same-sex couples the right to marry. Attorney General William H. Sorrell said in a statement Friday that the Defense of Marriage Act, which defines marriage as a…
WASHINGTON – Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, Congressman Jerrold Nadler and 143 other House Democrats have filed an Amicus Brief in the case of Edith Schlain Windsor v. United States of America. Edith “Edie” Windsor, 83, a constituent of Rep. Nadler’s in New York City, challenged DOMA in court after the federal government taxed her more…
WASHINGTON D.C. — Servicemembers Legal Defense Network (SLDN) responded to an Amicus Curiae brief Tuesday filed by ten Republican U.S. Senators in the case Golinski v. Office of Personnel Management, asserting that no harm was intended to LGBT Americans through the passage of the so-called Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and that the law is the result…
NEW YORK – Lambda Legal has filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the New York Court of Appeals urging the Court to drop the aggravated assault charge leveled at a criminal defendant based on his HIV status. “The last time I checked, being HIV-positive is not a crime,” said Scott Schoettes, HIV project director at Lambda…
BOSTON – Seventy businesses and organizations have filed a brief in federal court highlighting the harms to American companies caused by the discriminatory Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). The amicus curiae brief – signed by a wide diversity of corporations from tech giants Microsoft and Google to consumer brands Nike and Starbucks – supports the…
