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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
Wednesday Mar 13, 2013
Wednesday Mar 13, 2013
Discussion of: (1) the striking down of Austria's second-parent adoption ban; (2) the latest DOMA & Prop 8 developments in the U.S. Supreme Court; and (3) the firing of a lesbian Catholic school employee after she became pregnant through donor insemination. Visit le-gal.org to learn more about LeGaL, The LGBT Bar Association of Greater New York, and to subscribe to Lesbian/Gay Law Notes, the most comprehensive monthly publication summarizing legal & legislative developments affecting the LGBT community here and abroad.
Thursday Feb 21, 2013
Thursday Feb 21, 2013
Discussion of: (1) a potential advance for transgender inmates seeking gender reassignment surgery; (2) the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to hear a challenge to the Federal requirement that NGOs working on HIV prevention affirmatively oppose prostitution; and (3) a California case involving the presumptive parentage claim of an adoptive parent's former same-sex partner. Visit le-gal.org to learn more about LeGaL, The LGBT Bar Association of Greater New York, and to subscribe to Lesbian/Gay Law Notes, the most comprehensive monthly publication summarizing legal & legislative developments affecting the LGBT community here and abroad.
Saturday Jan 12, 2013
Saturday Jan 12, 2013
Discussion of: (1) developments for marriage equality/DOMA cases in the U.S. Supreme Court; (2) a Montana case concerning an effort by six same-sex couples to obtain the equivalent of civil unions or domestic partnerships; and (3) a Wisconsin case concerning whether that State’s domestic partnership law violates its anti-marriage equality amendment passed in 2006. Visit le-gal.org to learn more about LeGaL, The LGBT Bar Association of Greater New York, and to subscribe to Lesbian/Gay Law Notes, the most comprehensive monthly publication summarizing legal developments affecting the LGBT community here and abroad.
Thursday Dec 06, 2012
Thursday Dec 06, 2012
Discussion of: (1) the impact of the U.S. presidential election and victories at the ballot box for the LGBT community as well as U.S. Supreme Court (non-)developments; (2) a setback for marriage equality litigation in Nevada; (3) a Canadian case concerning criminal liability for HIV transmission; and (4) a Maine case concerning the bullying & harassment of a transgender student. Visit le-gal.org to learn more about LeGaL, The LGBT Bar Association of Greater New York, and to subscribe to Lesbian/Gay Law Notes, the most comprehensive monthly publication summarizing legal developments affecting the LGBT community here and abroad.
Wednesday Nov 07, 2012
Wednesday Nov 07, 2012
Discussion of: (1) the 2nd Circuit's ruling in Windsor striking down Section 3 of the federal Defense of Marriage Act; (2) the first U.S. prosecution of an anti-gay hate crime under the Hate Crimes Prevention Act; and (3) a Kentucky state court ruling that the sexual orientation of a parent cannot alone be a determining factor in a custody decision. Visit le-gal.org to learn more about LeGaL, The LGBT Bar Association of Greater New York, and to subscribe to Lesbian/Gay Law Notes, the most comprehensive monthly publication summarizing legal developments affecting the LGBT community here and abroad. Uncategorized, gay, Law, News & Politics, LGBT, Legal
Saturday Oct 20, 2012
Saturday Oct 20, 2012
Discussion of: (1) a MA federal court decision ordering gender reassignment surgery for a transgender inmate; (2) a CA case concerning claims that an Avis car rental discount extended to members of two LGBT organizations discriminated against heterosexuals; and (3) a custody dispute of a former NJ same-sex couple where one partner now wishes to relocate a child to Georgia. Visit le-gal.org to learn more about LeGaL, The LGBT Bar Association of Greater New York, and to subscribe to Lesbian/Gay Law Notes, the most comprehensive monthly publication summarizing legal developments affecting the LGBT community here and abroad.
Wednesday Sep 05, 2012
Wednesday Sep 05, 2012
Discussion of: (1) more DOMA developments and a loss for marriage equality proponents in Hawaii and (2) a case out of New York concerning New York City's adult zoning ordinance and the First Amendment. Visit www.le-gal.org to learn more about LeGaL, The LGBT Bar Association of Greater New York, and to subscribe to Lesbian/Gay Law Notes, the most comprehensive monthly publication summarizing legal developments affecting the LGBT community here and abroad.
Wednesday Jul 18, 2012
Wednesday Jul 18, 2012
Discussion of: (1) the latest developments in connection with ongoing challenges to the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and (2) a case out of New Mexico holding that non-biological, non-adoptive lesbian parent can qualify as a "natural mother." Visit www.le-gal.org to learn more about LeGaL, The LGBT Bar Association of Greater New York, and to subscribe to Lesbian/Gay Law Notes, the most comprehensive monthly publication summarizing legal developments affecting the LGBT community here and abroad.
Tuesday Jun 05, 2012
Tuesday Jun 05, 2012
Discussion of: (1) President's Obama's historic announcement of support for marriage equality; (2) 1st Circuit decision striking down Section 3 of DOMA; and (3) New York case concerning whether falsely calling someone gay is still slander per se. Visit www.le-gal.org to learn more about LeGaL, The LGBT Bar Association of Greater New York, and to subscribe to Lesbian/Gay Law Notes, the most comprehensive monthly publication summarizing legal developments affecting the LGBT community here and abroad.
Friday May 04, 2012
Friday May 04, 2012
Discussion of: (1) landmark ruling from the EEOC applying Title VII to discrimination claims based on gender identity, change of sex, and/or transgender status; (2) a Minnesota case concerning a union-administered employee benefits fund’s decision to drop a transgender woman from coverage after determining her marriage was not valid; and (3) a Mississippi case illustrating yet again some of the dangers for LGBT couples who do not make express their wishes about dividing up assets in the event of a break-up. Visit www.le-gal.org to learn more about LeGaL, The LGBT Bar Association of Greater New York, and to subscribe to Lesbian/Gay Law Notes, the most comprehensive monthly publication summarizing legal developments affecting the LGBT community here and abroad.