CHICAGO — A federal judge in Chicago has ruled that a transgender artist’s law suit against a Chicago ordinance From the Associated Press: The Chicago Daily Law Bulletin reports the ruling rejects a city request to toss the suit. To prevail, Bea Sullivan-Knoff must still prove at a trial that the ordinance violates her constitutional…
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Regional
Lawsuit dismissed against Ohio judge who denied name changes to transgender teens
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CLEVELAND — The US District Court in Ohio ruled this week that a judge can’t be sued for denying the name changes of three transgender teens. The teenagers were suing because of what seemed like a pattern of denials. All of the teens had the support of their parents both in the lawsuits and in…
Central Illinois, Eastern Illinois
Illinois Attorney General files suit over anti-LGBTQ discrimination
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SPRINGFIELD — Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan has filed a lawsuit against a bed-and-breakfast for not complying with an order that found they had discriminated against a gay couple. TV station FOX 55/27 reported Tuesday that the company, Walder Vacuflo Inc. doing business as TimberCreek Bed & Breakfast, had not paid damages to a gay…
Chicagoland
Van Dyke convicted of second degree murder in LaQuan McDonald case
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Organizations and community reacts to verdict CHICAGO — A jury of eight women and four men on Friday convicted Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke of one count of second-degree murder and 16 counts of aggravated battery, one count for each shot. The verdict brings to an end four years of political conflict in Chicago,…
MetroEast, Northern Illinois
IDOC denies abuse allegations in transgender inmate’s lawsuit
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BELLEVILLE — The Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC) has denied abuse allegations made in a transgender inmate’s lawsuit on Monday. The Belleville News-Democrat reported Wednesday that IDOC had responded to a lawsuit filed by Deon “Strawberry” Hampton. She sued to be moved to a women’s correctional facility. She has been moved to several men’s prisons…
National
Federal court rules N.C. law doesn’t bar transgender people from public facilities
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WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – A federal court last night said that House Bill 142, the 2017 law that replaced North Carolina’s notorious anti-LGBT measure, House Bill 2, does not bar transgender people from using public restrooms and other facilities that match their gender identity. U.S. District Judge Thomas Schroeder also said that he would allow a…
Regional
Civil rights orgs urge court to accept appeal of man who may have received death sentence because he’s gay
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ST. LOUIS — Six civil rights organizations, including the American Civil Liberties Union, American Civil Liberties Union of South Dakota, Lambda Legal, GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders, National Center for Lesbian Rights, and National LGBT Bar Association, filed an amici brief today urging the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals to hear the appeal of Charles…
National
Justice Kennedy to retire from SCOTUS
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WASHINGTON — U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy announced early Wednesday afternoon that he would retire, effective July 31. “It has been the greatest honor and privilege to serve our nation in the federal judiciary for 43 years, 30 of those years on the Supreme Court,” Kennedy, who is stepping down July 31, said in…