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WASHINGTON — Lambda Legal is calling on the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold appeal court rulings saying that reject religious discrimination as a basis for discrimination by adoption agencies.
PALATINE — The school board of District 211 voted to settle a lawsuit over facility access for transgender students, ending an controversy lasting for more than four years.
CLAYTON, Mo. — A St. Louis County cop who sued the department is getting his settlement, and staying on the job.
W. Carsten Andresen, a criminal justice scholar, has been building a database of murder cases that use the gay panic defense. We asked him to tell us more about these cases, and what sets them apart from other murder trials.
PEORIA — The Illinois Supreme Court will be deciding if whether smelling cannabis is justifiable cause for police to search a car.
CHICAGO — The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals last week ruled in favor of women who sued to have both their names on their children’s birth certificate.
The case involves Indiana’s birth certificate law.
The Indiana Lawyer reported that the women filed a lawsuit in 2015 after they were prohibited from including both their names on their children’s birth certificates.
RICHMOND, Va. — On Friday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit upheld a lower court ruling in Roe & Voe v. Esper.
CHAMPAIGN — A federal judge has ruled that Illinois prison officials must read evidence and transcripts from a lawsuit brought against the prison system by transgender prisoners.
BALTIMORE — The Trevor Project has filed an amicus brief to support a “conversion therapy” ban that’s been challenged in federal court.