Tag Archives: Supreme Court
Supreme Court plays rough over classroom book battle
Justice Sotomayor schooled Justice Alito Tuesday in debate over parents desire to opt out of elementary curriculum that includes LGBTQ books.
Supreme Court wrestles with procedure, language in PrEP case
The U.S. Supreme Court April 21 heard arguments in a case that may decide how political decisions might be when requiring employers to cover certain preventive treatments --such as PrEP.
After two passes, Supreme Court will review conversion therapy bans
Twice the Supreme Court has declined to review state bans on conversion therapy but on Monday, it said it would accept an appeal challenging Colorado's ban.
Supreme Ct: green light to straights likely; red flash on LGBTQ books
The U.S. Supreme Court appears poised to ease the burden for straights claiming discrimination, and it plans to scrutinize LGBTQ-related books in elementary schools.
Why LGBTQ people care about the fight over RU-486
The court fight over RU-486 could determine whether any federal judge could hinder availability of a medicine --including products LGBTQ people rely on-- even after a federal agency of experts has approved it.
Trans battle heats up as Biden, courts, weigh in
After months of states passing laws to prevent transgender students from participating in sports according to their gender identity, the U.S. Supreme Court takes a vote that throws cold water on the hostility and the Biden administration proposes a law
At Supreme Court, fact contortion likely to gut protections
There were strange arguments to contend with December 5, as the U. S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in this session's big LGBTQ-related case. The conservative majority appears poised to gut protections for LGBTQ people in state public accommodations laws.
‘Extremely troubling’ start to Supreme Court session
The way the U.S. Supreme Court has worded its question around the latest anti-LGBTQ appeal, many legal activists say the eventual decision could have “far broader implications” than a religious exemption to sexual orientation protections.
Small victory in long legal religious war
Chief Justice John Roberts and conservative Justice Brett Kavanaugh voted with the U.S. Supreme Court’s three liberal-leaning justices September 14 to reject a request that would have undermined a New York City law prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation in
Abortion decision lays out ‘horrifying’ new landscape
In a ruling that one legal activist said will put LGBT rights “on the chopping block,” the U.S. Supreme Court today (June 24) ruled 6 to 3 that the U.S. Constitution “does not prohibit” states from banning abortion.
