LGBT Bar NY Podcast

Sentenced to Death Because He's Gay?

On this episode LeGaL Executive Director Eric Lesh speaks with Lambda Legal Senior Attorney Ethan Rice. At issue is a brief that Lambda Legal, the ACLU, and ACLU South Dakota filed with the Supreme Court in the case of Rhines v. Young. The brief argues that anti-gay juror bias in-part motivated the South Dakota jury’s decision to sentence Charles Rhines to death. We also chat about the experiences of LGBT people in the court system.

Here Comes the Ban

On the Law Notes episode of the LeGaL LGBT Podcast, we discuss:

• The latest legal developments on Trump's hateful transgender military ban;
• A federal court blocks discharges of healthy airmen living with HIV; and
• A U.S. district court that finds a child born in Canada through gestational surrogacy to a same-sex couple is entitled to U.S. citizenship at birth.

LeGaL Executive Director Eric Lesh and New York Law School Professor Art Leonard discuss.