Topic: American Civil Liberties Union
Lambda Legal and the ACLU filed a lawsuit Thursday on behalf of six gay couples asking for equal marriage-like rights in Hawaii.
Lambda Legal and the American Civil Liberties Union of Hawaii (ACLU) threatened it would file the ...
The Christian conservative group American Family Association (AFA) has called a Mississippi school's settlement with gay teen Constance McMillen a capitulation to “evil.”
The settlement between the Itawamba County School District and McMillen was announced Tuesday ...
BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (Reuters Life!) - A Mississippi teen-ager who was prevented from attending her high school prom with her girlfriend has settled a suit against her school district. The Itawamba County school district will pay Constance McMillen $35,000, said a school district spokesman. "I am really excited that it is over with and we won and things are going to ...
Constance McMillen has agreed to settle with the Mississippi school district that refused to allow her to attend her school prom with her girlfriend.
Itawamba County School District officials have agreed to pay the teen $35 ...
A teenage lesbian who sued her Mississippi school district over its ban of same-sex prom dates is accepting an offer to settle the case. American Civil Liberties Union attorneys representing Constance McMillen have filed notice in U.S. District Court to accept a judgment offer from ...
An Arkansas judge has ruled the state's ban on gay adoption unconstitutional.
Pulaski County Circuit Judge Christopher C. Piazza on Friday struck down a law that bans an unmarried person who lives with a partner from serving as an adoptive or foster parent. Because the state ...
A federal judge has ordered gay advocacy groups to surrender documents related to Proposition 8, the gay marriage ban narrowly approved by California voters in 2008.
The AP is reporting that Chief US District Judge Vaughn Walker has upheld a magistrate judge's ruling requiring ...
Gay groups signaled Tuesday they would appeal a federal judge's order to surrender documents related to Proposition 8, the gay marriage ban narrowly approved by California voters in 2008, the AP reported.
Chief US District Judge Vaughn Walker upheld a ...
The prom's still off at a Mississippi high school that canceled it instead of letting a lesbian student bring her girlfriend, but a federal judge ruled Tuesday that the district's actions did violate the teen's constitutional rights. U.S. District Judge ...
Jene Newsome played by the rules as an Air Force sergeant: She never told anyone in the military she was a lesbian. The 28-year-old's honorable discharge under the "don't ask, don't tell" policy came only after police officers in Rapid City, S.D ...
