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CHICAGO — The ACLU of Illinois celebrated an Illinois Supreme Court decision confirming parental rights under the Illinois Civil Union Act on Thursday.
SEATTLE — On Friday, a federal district judge adopted the recommendation of a magistrate judge and struck down as unconstitutional the U.S. Social Security Administration’s (SSA’s) categorical denial of survivor’s benefits to surviving same-sex partners.
WASHINGTON — On Thursday, Lambda Legal submitted a friend-of-the-court brief on behalf of itself and 26 local, state, and national organizations that serve LGBTQ youth.
NEW YORK — On Monday, United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York issued an injunction in Walker v. Azar, one of the various challenges to the Trump administration’s health care discrimination rule,.
CHICAGO — The Cook County Republican Party is suing Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker in federal court over a law that would expand voting by mail, claiming it would dilute Republican votes.
LOUISVILLE — The Kentucky Youth Law Project is seeking young people to be a plantiff in a legal challenge to Kentucky birth certificate laws.
NEW YORK — The District of Columbia and 22 states are suing the federal government over the recent rollback in transgender healthcare protections.
LOUISVILLE — A hearing for State Rep. Darren Bailey’s (R-Xenia) lawsuit over Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker’s shelter-in-place orders has been delayed.
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court issued a split decision on the release of Trump’s tax returns, saying there wasn’t “absolute immunity” but saying lower courts didn’t study the subpeonas enough.