WASHINGTON, DC – A federal judge day dismissed a lawsuit filed by the Fourth Corner Credit Union against the Federal Reserve in hopes of providing banking services to the legal cannabis industry. In his ruling, Judge R. Brooke Jackson said Congress must provide the answer, stating, “I regard the [cannabis banking] situation as untenable and…
Today U.S. District Judge Raymond P. Moore ruled against Colorado’s constitutional amendment banning marriage equality. In Burns v. Hickenlooper, attorneys with Kilmer, Lane and Newman, LLP sued the state on behalf of six same-sex couples who argue that Colorado’s ban on marriage equality violates the U.S. Constitution. Judge Moore stayed his ruling until August 25 to…
Wednesday Adams County District Court Judge C. Scott Crabtree ruled against Colorado’s constitutional amendment banning marriage equality, making the Centennial State the latest to see such a ban struck down in court since the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its historic marriage rulings last June. In Brinkman v. Long, attorneys from Wilcox & Ogden, P.C. and…
Bail was set at $2 million June 25 for Tiffany LaToya Nowden who is charged with stabbing her wife to death while in bed in their San Carlos home. Nowden, 39, pleaded not guilty to the murder of Russina Vale, 38, whose body was found June 5 in their Mission Gorge Road apartment. San Diego…
Student bathrooms post AB1266, the Schools Success and Opportunity Act, are “going to be a hostile situation, I think, and dangerous to everybody. I don’t see [accommodating transgender girls in school bathrooms] as a way that cuts down on bullying as the quote in the Wall Street Journal – forcing boys and girls to share…
Media Matters for America have announced their LGBT Misinformer of the Year … The Pacific Justice Institute (PJI). The Pacific Justice Institute (PJI), a California-based right-wing advocacy organization, set a new standard for dishonesty on LGBT issues in 2013, concocting a story about bathroom harassment by a transgender student in an effort to deny transgender…
Colorado State defensive line coach Greg Lupfer has been suspended for two weeks without pay after being caught by ESPN’s cameras using an anti-gay slur during the New Mexico Bowl. According to a report by CBS Sports, Lupfer and Washington State quarterback Connor Halliday were caught in a verbal exchange after Halliday threw a touchdown pass…
Protest against Pacific Justice Institute in front of the campus of Trinity Law School in Santa Ana, Calif. It’s not enough to know what one’s against. One often actually needs to know what one is for, and then be willing to work – and sometimes sacrifice – to facilitate those things to become reality. I…
“We treat our transgender students – our boys, our transgender boys and girls – simply like any other boys and girls with the same rights and responsibilities, rules and obligations,” stated Judy Chiasson, Ph.D. and program coordinator for Human Relations, Diversity and Equity, Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) at the June 12 California State…
NEW YORK – GLAAD, today announced along with the Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund (TLDEF) that the Colorado Civil Rights Division has ruled in favor of six-year-old Coy Mathis, whose school had barred her from using the girls’ bathroom at her elementary school because she is transgender. This is the first ruling in the nation…
