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LGBTQ+ lawyers, policy experts, and activists discuss the latest legal and political news affecting the LGBTQ+ community both in the U.S. and abroad. Hosted by Shain Filcher, Executive Director of the LGBT Bar of NY, with regularly featured guest Prof. Emeritus Arthur S. Leonard of New York Law School.
Episodes
Monday Sep 11, 2017
LGBT Law Notes Podcast: September 2017
Monday Sep 11, 2017
Monday Sep 11, 2017
Discussion of: (1) President Trump setting in motion a ban on open transgender military service in the United States; (2) what is shaping up to be a blockbuster term at the U.S. Supreme Court for LGBT rights; (3) a fascinating custody dispute that has emerged out of the Hasidic community in Brooklyn; and (4) the state of play in Australia as a postal plebiscite on marriage equality gets underway.
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Friday Jul 21, 2017
LGBT Law Notes Podcast: Summer 2017
Friday Jul 21, 2017
Friday Jul 21, 2017
Discussion of: (1) the U.S. Supreme Court reaffirming Obergefell and the Texas Supreme Court's outrageous misreading of Obergefell only days later; (2) the hot-button First Amendment issue the Supreme Court agreed to decide next term; (3) why the big Title VII question could now also be decided by the Supreme Court in the next term; and (4) a setback from the Fifth Circuit in the constitutional challenge to Mississippi House Bill 1523.
Visit le-gal.org to learn more about The LGBT Bar Association of Greater New York and to subscribe to LGBT Law Notes, the most comprehensive monthly publication summarizing legal and legislative developments affecting the LGBT community here and abroad.
Saturday Jun 10, 2017
LGBT Law Notes Podcast: June 2017
Saturday Jun 10, 2017
Saturday Jun 10, 2017
Discussion of: (1) two transgender rights breakthroughs under federal law in May; (2) Title VII developments in the Second Circuit; (3) a Kentucky Court of Appeals decision that a vendor did not violate a local antidiscrimination ordinance when it refused to make pride t-shirts; and (4) the wonderful marriage equality news out of Taiwan.
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Saturday May 06, 2017
LGBT Law Notes Podcast: May 2017
Saturday May 06, 2017
Saturday May 06, 2017
Discussion of: (1) the first ruling under the federal Fair Housing Act to conclude it protects LGBT people; (2) a Manhattan court finding that a woman is not the legal parent to a child adopted by her former same-sex partner; (3) constitutional equal protection principles for jury selection being extended to sexual orientation in California; and (4) why Roy Moore is back in the news, despite losing his appeal to be reinstated as Chief Justice of Alabama.
Visit le-gal.org to learn more about The LGBT Bar Association of Greater New York and to subscribe to LGBT Law Notes, the most comprehensive monthly publication summarizing legal and legislative developments affecting the LGBT community here and abroad.
Friday Apr 14, 2017
LGBT Law Notes Podcast: April 2017
Friday Apr 14, 2017
Friday Apr 14, 2017
Discussion of: (1) the flurry of Title VII decisions from federal appellate courts in the last month, especially the en banc Seventh Circuit's historic ruling in the Hively case; (2) the remand of Gavin Grimm's case back down to the Fourth Circuit; (3) the disappointing replacement for H.B. 2 in North Carolina; and (4) how Neil Gorsuch may impact LGBT rights now that he has been confirmed to the Supreme Court of the United States.
Visit le-gal.org to learn more about The LGBT Bar Association of Greater New York and to subscribe to LGBT Law Notes, the most comprehensive monthly publication summarizing legal and legislative developments affecting the LGBT community here and abroad.
Friday Mar 03, 2017
LGBT Law Notes Podcast: March 2017
Friday Mar 03, 2017
Friday Mar 03, 2017
Discussion of: (1) all the twists and turns in the Gavin Grimm case as we approach argument at the U.S. Supreme Court later this month; (2) a unanimous Washington Supreme Court decision rejecting a First Amendment defense from a florist who refused to provide flowers for a gay wedding; (3) more bad news from the Arkansas Supreme Court; and (4) why a New York federal court found Grindr probably does not have liability, despite one man using it to severely harass his ex.
Visit le-gal.org to learn more about The LGBT Bar Association of Greater New York and to subscribe to LGBT Law Notes, the most comprehensive monthly publication summarizing legal and legislative developments affecting the LGBT community here and abroad.
Tuesday Feb 07, 2017
LGBT Law Notes Podcast: February 2017
Tuesday Feb 07, 2017
Tuesday Feb 07, 2017
Discussion of: (1) President Donald Trump's nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch to the U.S. Supreme Court; (2) a concerning decision to hear a case by the Texas Supreme Court; (3) a federal court letting a transgender woman sue her employer under Title VII after a health plan denied coverage of her transition-related care; and (4) a case arising out of a gay man's tragic fall overboard from a cruise ship balcony.
Visit le-gal.org to learn more about The LGBT Bar Association of Greater New York and to subscribe to LGBT Law Notes, the most comprehensive monthly publication summarizing legal and legislative developments affecting the LGBT community here and abroad.
Thursday Jan 12, 2017
LGBT Law Notes Podcast: January 2017
Thursday Jan 12, 2017
Thursday Jan 12, 2017
Discussion of: (1) a familiar Texas federal district court judge issuing another nationwide injunction against the Obama administration; (2) a disappointing 4-3 decision on birth certificates from the Arkansas Supreme Court; (3) a Louisiana court declaring an executive order of Governor John Bel Edwards unconstitutional; and (4) the sad final chapter in the saga arising out of a public nudity arrest at San Diego Pride in 2011.
Visit le-gal.org to learn more about The LGBT Bar Association of Greater New York and to subscribe to LGBT Law Notes, the most comprehensive monthly publication summarizing legal and legislative developments affecting the LGBT community here and abroad.
Friday Dec 09, 2016
LGBT Law Notes Podcast: December 2016
Friday Dec 09, 2016
Friday Dec 09, 2016
Discussion of: (1) what the incoming Trump Administration and Republican control of both houses of Congress might mean for the future of LGBT rights; (2) November developments in the continuing push to have Title VII's protections interpreted broadly to include LGBT employees, featuring analysis of an important en banc reargument in the 7th Circuit; (3) a Hawaii Supreme Court ruling that a family court judge made the wrong call in denying joint custody to two men who were never married, but agreed to co-parent a child after they split up; and (4) how four Texas lesbians wrongly convicted of sexually abusing young children nearly 20 years ago were finally exonerated.
Visit le-gal.org to learn more about The LGBT Bar Association of Greater New York and to subscribe to LGBT Law Notes, the most comprehensive monthly publication summarizing legal and legislative developments affecting the LGBT community here and abroad.
Sunday Nov 06, 2016
LGBT Law Notes Podcast: November 2016
Sunday Nov 06, 2016
Sunday Nov 06, 2016
Discussion of: (1) the U.S. Supreme Court granting cert in three cases of interest to the LGBT community, especially the Gavin Grimm case; (2) a constitutional challenge brought by a church to a state antidiscrimination law that covers public accommodations and gender identity; (3) a Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court decision establishing that a lesbian partner without a biological connection to a child can satisfy both the "born to" and "holding out" provisions of a state parentage statute when that statute is read in a gender neutral fashion; and (4) a final update on the Dharun Ravi legal saga following the overturning of his criminal conviction on appeal.
Visit le-gal.org to learn more about The LGBT Bar Association of Greater New York and to subscribe to LGBT Law Notes, the most comprehensive monthly publication summarizing legal and legislative developments affecting the LGBT community here and abroad.