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Supreme Court should deny premature request for review of Transgender military ban rulings

French scientists succeed in destroying HIV-infected cells

Potential breakthrough in HIV treatment

HIV particles on the surface of a CD4 T lymphocyte © Institut Pasteur / Marie-Christine Prévost, Nathalie Sol-Foulon and Olivier Schwartz. Colorization Jean-Marc Panaud.

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WASHINGTON, DC (December 26, 2018) – Lambda Legal today urged the US Supreme Court to deny a petition from the US Department of Justice (DOJ) asking that the court review three preliminary federal

district court rulings that have kept the Trump administration from implementing its discriminatory plan to ban transgender

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by Mike Andrew SGN Staff Writer French scientists have announced what they describe as “a potential major breakthrough” in HIV treatment – the ability to destroy human cells infected with HIV.

The scientists at Institut Pasteur in Paris revealed on December 22 that they had discovered a way to eliminate HIV infections by destroying the cells that contain the virus.

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Ohio Gov. John Kasich signs Arizona courts right to executive order protecting reject religious license Trans state employees from to discriminate workplace discrimination After two terms, restores protections to same level as his Democratic predecessor

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by Mike Andrew SGN Staff Writer Ohio’s Republican Gov. John Kasich signed Executive Order 2018-12K on

December 20, adding protections for Transgender state employees to Ohio employment policies.

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PHOENIX, Ariz. (Dec. 21, 2018) – Lambda Legal filed a friend-of-the-court brief late yesterday urging the Arizona Supreme Court to affirm an appellate court ruling that denied a Phoenix business’s request that it be exempt from the City of

Phoenix anti-discrimination ordinance and instead be allowed to refuse service to same-sex couples because they claim it violates their religion to treat same- and different-sex couples equally.

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by Jesse Monteagudo SGN Contributing Writer Michael Mayo is a columnist for the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel. For many years, Mayo wrote “Mayo on the Side,” an opinion column that dealt with political issues.

A couple of years ago Mayo, perhaps foreseeing the election of Donald Trump, ended “Mayo on the Side” and began “The Eat Beat,” a restaurant review column. I don’t blame him. No matter how bad the restaurant is, it cannot be as depressing as the political situation is today. A column about restaurants is always fun to read, especially when it is written by a writer as talented as Mike Mayo (or Rick Karlin). I used to write book reviews; and I can tell you that no matter how bad the book was I always managed to find something interesting or inspirational about my topic, which is more than I can say about my political columns.

2018 ended the way it began: with a lying narcissist in the White House, doing his best to destroy everything that we hold dear, at home or abroad. How can we criticize other countries for their political choices when we ourselves elected a man

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who is totally unfit to hold the most powerful office in the world? Though Donald Trump’s misgovernment inspired a “Blue Wave” that carried the Democratic Party to control of the House of Representatives, his base remains strong here in Florida where Ron Desantis, a Trump devotee, was elected governor. We also lost a few fine people who we admired, including John McCain and Stephen Hawking. Readers of this column know of my affection for Aretha Franklin, the “Queen of Soul.”

Her passing was a sad event, though it was gratifying to see the love that she inspired in so many people, and her music survives to entertain and inspire us.

For me the saddest event of 2018 was the passing of my Mother, ten days before Christmas at the age of 88. Like my late partner, Michael Greenspan, my Mom suffered from dementia; in her case Alzheimer’s disease. Delia Monteagudo was not a celebrity like Franklin, Burt Reynolds or George H. W. Bush. Like most people, she will only be remembered by those who loved her. But I think that she did a lot, considering her limitations and the world she lived in. She and my father,

who died in 1991, sacrificed a lot when they took their two children and left Cuba in search of freedom. Though Dad and I never reconciled, I grew close to my Mom during the 27 years of her widowhood. Like many people, Mom believed that death was not THE END but the door to a new plane of existence where she would be reunited with her departed loved ones like my Dad and her own parents. Though I am not so sure, I truly hope that she was right.

All in all, 2018 has ended and good riddance. We hope that 2019 will be a better year, if only because one branch of Congress will no longer be controlled by Trump acolytes. But life goes on; and as a wise man (Pitbull) once said, any day one spends above ground (or not turned to ashes) is a good day. Though I still have my down days, I try to remain upbeat by staying busy, reading good books, and enjoying all that South Florida has to offer (as long as climate change does not destroy it) while in the company of my friends and loved ones.

And I will continue to write this column, doing my best to celebrate good and inspiring people, places and things in this often frustrating world of ours.

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OutRight Action International Seattle to host book launch reception Jan. 7

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Forty years ago Harvey Milk’s iconic journey was ended by an assassin. The generation of out LGBTQ leaders he inspired went on to transform the world we live in, not only here in the U.S. but also globally. OutRight’s partner and friend, UNC-Chapel Hill Professor of Political Science Andrew Reynolds, has documented this history through the epic stories of courageous political candidates and elected officials around the world who shattered stereotypes to transform politics and society.

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Please join us for a special event on January 7, 6-7:30pm, at the Seattle Foundation (1601 Fifth Avenue, Suite 1900) launching Reynolds’ new book, The Children of Harvey Milk: How LGBTQ Politicians Changed the World. Professor Reynolds will speak on the visibility of LGBTQ politicians, and Monisha Harrell of Equal Rights Washington will moderate a panel discussion with local LGBTQ elected officials, including State Senator Jamie Pedersen and MP Hannah Bardell (Scottish National Party).

Elliott Bay Books will be selling copies of Reynold’s book at the event (you may also pre-order the book through Elliott Bay Books).

We hope you will join us to remember our history and celebrate the incredible progress we have made in the Puget Sound and around the world. Please register for this free event, and invite others to join us on Facebook. For more information and to register, visit http://iglhrc.nonprofitsoapbox.com/harveymilk/

This event is sponsored by OutRight Action International, GSBA, Equal Rights Washington, Carolina Pride Alumni Network, Seattle Foundation, Elliott Bay Books.

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continued from cover After successful lab tests, the next step will be assessing the potential of using this technique on living organisms, they said.

Antiretroviral drugs now being used are able to beat back HIV so that the virus no longer reproduces, but they are still unable to completely remove the virus from the human host. Even when HIV is brought down to undetectable levels, a small amount of the virus remains latent within certain so-called “reservoir” cells.

The virus remaining in the CD4 lymphocyte immune cells will be inactive as long as the patient stays on antiretrovirals, but if the patient stops taking the meds, the virus can reactivate.

Therefore, eliminating these hidden reservoirs of virus has become a key target among scientists who wish to find a cure for HIV. Theoretically, this French technique could perhaps eradicate HIV from the body altogether.

“The antiretroviral treatment used today is designed to block HIV infection but it is not able to eliminate the virus from the body,” an Institut Pasteur spokesperson explained.

“The virus remains in reservoirs – the CD4 T lymphocyte immune cells, the main targets of HIV… “Thanks to metabolic activity inhibitors, the researchers have managed to destroy these infected cells, or ‘reservoirs,’ ex vivo [in a controlled lab experiment].”

HIV targets cells with high metabolic activity and “hijacks” their energy in order to multiply. Inhibiting metabolic activity leads to the death of the host cells, and with them, the HIV.

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Schematic representation of CD4 T lymphocytes. Left: the CD4 T lymphocyte with significant metabolic activity is infected with HIV. Right: the CD4 T lymphocyte has no metabolic activity and therefore cannot be infected. © Institut Pasteur / Nicolas Huot

Asier Saez-Cirion, coordinator of the study – Photo courtesy of Institut Pasteur

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people from serving openly in the US armed services. The three preliminary rulings include one from the US District Court for the Western District of Washington in the lawsuit brought by Lambda Legal and OutServe-SLDN, and joined by the State of Washington, challenging the constitutionality of the proposed ban.

“There is no valid reason for the TrumpPence administration to try to short-circuit established practice and ask for review before the federal Courts of Appeal have even had an opportunity to rule,” Lambda Legal Counsel Peter Renn said. “It is mystifying why the Trump-Pence administration is suddenly so desperate to kick out transgender service members when it’s been already five months since the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals denied an earlier stay request.

“Moreover, since transgender troops were able to serve openly starting two-anda-half years ago, there has been no dimi-

nution of readiness, no disruption of unit cohesion.” Renn added. “In fact, leaders of all branches of the US armed services have testified that the implementation of open service has occurred smoothly and without incident. It is clear, notwithstanding the ginned-up rationalizations, that rank bigotry remains the only justification for the discriminatory ban, and the court should allow the appellate courts to rule on the issues through the ordinary course.”

Lambda Legal and OutServe-SLDN filed the lawsuit, Karnoski v. Trump, in August 2017, on behalf of nine individual plaintiffs and three organizational plaintiffs: the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the Seattle-based Gender Justice League, and the American Military Partner Association (AMPA). The State of Washington later joined the lawsuit. The district court in December 2017 granted the plaintiffs’ motion for a preliminary injunction preventing implementation of the ban, which the DOJ chose not to challenge on appeal, and the court maintained that preliminary injunction in April after the Trump admin-

istration released a plan for implementing its discriminatory ban. The administration appealed that latter ruling to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, which heard oral argument on October 10, 2018. The 9th Circuit previously denied the DOJ’s request to stay the preliminary injunction during the appeal, thereby allowing transgender people to continue serving, and the DOJ declined to ask the Supreme Court for a stay while the appeal proceeded.

In addition to Karnoski v. Trump, the administration also asked the Supreme Court to review the preliminary injunctions in Stockman v. Trump and Doe v. Trump, lawsuits also challenging the ban, filed by the National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR) and GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders (GLAD). Doe v. Trump was filed in the US District Court for the District of Columbia and is pending on appeal at the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Stockman v. Trump was filed in the US District Court for the Central District of California and is also pending on appeal at the 9th Circuit.

Read Lambda Legal’s reply brief here: https://www.lambdalegal.org/in-court/legaldocs/dc_karnoski_20181225_scotus-briefin-opposition-to-petition-for-cert-beforejudgment Read more about Karnoski v. Trump here: https://www.lambdalegal.org/in-court/ cases/karnoski-v-trump The Lambda Legal attorneys working on the case are: Peter Renn, Diana Flynn, Camilla B. Taylor, Tara Borelli, Paul Castillo, Sasha Buchert, and Kara Ingelhart. They are joined by co-counsel Peter Perkowski of OutServe-SLDN. Also on the legal team are pro-bono co-counsel at Kirkland & Ellis LLP and Newman Du Wors LLP. Lambda Legal is a national organization committed to achieving full recognition of the civil rights of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgender people, and everyone living with HIV through impact litigation, education, and public policy work. For more information, visit www.lambdalegal.org Courtesy of Lambda Legal

OutServe-SLDN urges Supreme Court to deny Trump-Pence administration’s premature request for review of Transgender military ban rulings WASHINGTON, DC (December 26, 2018) – Today, OutServe-SLDN joined co-counsel Lambda Legal in urging the Supreme Court to deny a petition from the US Department of Justice (DOJ) asking that the court review three preliminary federal district court rulings that have kept the Trump-Pence administration from implementing its discriminatory plan to ban transgender people from serving openly and authentically in our nation’s armed services. The three preliminary rulings include one from the US District Court for the Western District of Washington, in the lawsuit brought by OutServeSLDN and Lambda Legal, and joined by the State of Washington, challenging the constitutionality of the proposed ban.

“There is no justification for this tactic, other than the president’s callous need to harm transgender service members and recruits as quickly as he can,” said Peter Perkowski, OutServe-SLDN Legal & Policy Director. “The Trump-Pence administration’s attempt to just the line is not warranted: transgender people are currently serving openly and have been for more than two years. The service chiefs themselves have told Congress that there have been no problems with their open and authentic service. What’s the rush? The process should play out in the normal course. We’re confident that the Supreme Court will see through this request as premature.”

“The Trump-Pence Administration’s continued attempts to undermine our transgender siblings’ right to serve is disgraceful,” said Andy Blevins, OutServe-SLDN’s executive director. “Time and again, our transgender siblings-in-arms have proven that they are not only qualified to serve but that they are vital in accomplishing the mission. Blatant discriminatory actions at the hands of our nation’s largest employer of the LGBTQ community cannot be allowed to continue.”

OutServe-SLDN and Lambda Legal filed the lawsuit, Karnoski v. Trump, in August 2017, on behalf of nine individual plaintiffs and three organizational plaintiffs: the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the Seattle-based Gender Justice League, and the American Military Partner Association (AMPA). The State of Washington later joined the lawsuit. The district court in December 2017 granted the plaintiffs’ motion for a preliminary injunction preventing implementation of the ban, which the

Plaintiff Cathrine Schmid, second left, listens as attorney Natalie Nardecchia speaks to media members in front of a federal courthouse following a hearing there Tuesday, March 27, 2018, in Seattle. – Photo by Elaine Thompson / AP

DOJ chose not to challenge on appeal, and the court maintained that preliminary injunction in April after the Trump administration released a plan for implementing its discriminatory ban. The administration appealed that latter ruling to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, which heard oral argument on October 10, 2018. The 9th Circuit previously denied the DOJ’s request to stay the preliminary injunction during the appeal, thereby allowing transgender people to continue serving, and the DOJ declined to ask the Supreme Court for a stay while the appeal proceeded.

In addition to Karnoski v. Trump, the administration also asked the Supreme Court to review the preliminary injunctions in Stockman v. Trump and Doe v. Trump, lawsuits also challenging the ban, filed by the National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR) and GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders (GLAD). Doe v. Trump was filed in the US District Court for the District

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of Columbia and is pending on appeal at the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Stockman v. Trump was filed in the US District Court for the Central District of California and is also pending on appeal at the 9th Circuit.

Read OutServe-SLDN’s reply brief [at https://outserve-sldn.us10.list-manage. com/track/click?u=1c22ca77336b425da2a f6096f&id=e9626b578c&e=c62bd60391].

You can read more about Karnoski v.

Trump here: https://www.lambdalegal.org/ in-court/cases/karnoski-v-trump Working on this case, OutServe-SLDN Legal & Policy Director Peter Perkowski is joined by Lambda Legal attorneys Peter Renn, Diana Flynn, Camilla B. Taylor, Tara Borelli, Paul Castillo, Sasha Buchert, and Kara Ingelhart. Also on the legal team are pro-bono co-counsel at Kirkland & Ellis LLP and Newman Du Wors LLP.

OutServe-SLDN (OS-SLDN) is the largest nonprofit, legal services, advocacy, and policy organization dedicated to bringing about full LGBT equality to America’s military and ending all forms of discrimination and harassment of military personnel on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. With more than fifty chapters and 60,000 subscribers around the world, OS-SLDN supports a professional network of LGBT military personnel and strives to create an environment of respect in the military with regard to sexual orientation and gender identity. OS-SLDN provides free and direct legal assistance to service members and veterans affected by the repealed “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” law and the prior regulatory ban on open service, as well as those currently serving who may experience harassment or discrimination. For more information, visit www.outserve-sldn.org.

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NYC suspends and fines cabbie for refusing to carry Gay passengers

by Mike Andrew SGN Staff Writer New York City authorities have suspended and fined a cab driver who refused to carry a Gay passenger.

According to the New York Post, Martin Morrison, a Yellow Cab driver, picked up one man and one woman at the corner of Fifth Avenue and East 43rd Street in Manhattan just after 1:00 a.m. on June 13, 2018.

For some reason, he asked the man if he was Gay. When the man replied that he was, Morrison told the pair that he didn’t drive Gay people. He then crossed through the intersection and pulled over. The customers said they were shocked by Morrison’s statement, got out of the cab, and found another ride.

The passengers subsequently filed a complaint with the City’s Taxi and Limousine Commission (TLC), the agency charged with overseeing cabs within New York City limits.

The TLC ruled that Morrison’s behavior went against the policies and values of the agency, and constituted three separate violations: unjustified refusal of service,

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continued from cover “This executive order explicitly prohibits discrimination in state employment on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, and other protected bases such as race, color, religion, age, and disability,” Equality Ohio explained in a press release.

“Today’s executive order builds on a previous order issued by Gov. Kasich, which had only protected lesbian, gay, and bisexual state employees. By adding gender identity and expression in his latest executive order today, Gov. Kasich showed leadership in ensuring that transgender and genderqueer

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discourtesy, and performing an act against the best interest of the public. He was suspended for 10 days and fined $1,150.

“The individual’s behavior in this instance was inappropriate and wholly unacceptable, and the penalties are appropriately severe,”

Ohioans have the employment protections they deserve.”

While it’s a fine thing that Kasich finally decided to protect Trans employees – after nearly eight years in office – the new executive order merely restores protections that had been in place under his predecessor, Democratic Gov. Ted Strickland.

In fact, Kasich rescinded protections for Transgender state employees when he assumed office in 2011, and only offered legal guarantees for sexual orientation.

During his eight-year stint in the US House of Representatives, Kasich opposed LGBT rights, like most other Republican congresspersons. Like them, he voted for DOMA in 1996 and supported a similar

ban on same-sex marriages in Ohio.

In 2015, following the US Supreme Court’s decision in Obergefell v. Hodges, which held that there is a fundamental right to same-sex marriage under the 14th Amendment, Kasich said that he was “obviously disappointed” because he believed in “traditional marriage.”

The only concession Kasich made to LGBT Ohioans was to admit that the Obergefell ruling was “the law of the land and we’ll abide by it.”

During the 2016 presidential campaign – in which he was an unsuccessful candidate – Kasich grudgingly admitted that if one of his own children were a Lesbian, he would accept her marriage to another woman.

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The business, Brush & Nib Studio, is represented by Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), an anti-LGBT legal organization that has been designated a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. This is one of several cases in state and federal courts seeking to create a religious right to discriminate.

“In June, the Arizona Court of Appeals issued a thoughtful, thorough, and wellreasoned ruling that the operation of a stationery store, including designing and selling customized wedding merchandise, is not expressive conduct and therefore not entitled to First Amendment free speech protections,” Lambda Legal’s Law and Policy Director Jennifer C. Pizer said. “The Phoenix ordinance does not regulate speech – in fact the Court of Appeals specifically noted Brush & Nib’s owners are free to post a sign detailing their religious beliefs or a disclaimer that their doing business with same-sex couples does not constitute an endorsement of their relationships.

“The Court of Appeals’ ruling was consistent with decisions by courts across the country that have similarly refused to create a new religious right for businesses to exempt themselves from civil rights laws,” Pizer added. “As we argued in our friend-ofthe-court brief to the US Supreme Court last term in Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, it’s not about cake or stationery or flowers: it’s about protecting LGBT people and families from being forced to endure bigotry and abuse in countless places, from fertility clinic to funeral home, and everywhere in between.”

Phoenix expanded its nondiscrimination ordinance in 2013 to include sexual orientation and gender identity. Three years

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later – after Lambda Legal had invalidated Arizona’s exclusion of same-sex couples from marriage, and soon after the US Supreme Court struck down state marriage bans nationwide in the historic Obergefell v. Hodges decision – the proprietors of Brush & Nib, Joanna Duka and Breanna Koski, represented by the ADF, filed suit in Arizona state court seeking an exemption from the Phoenix ordinance, even though no same-sex couple had ever sought their services. To date, they still have never been asked to produce wedding-related goods for a same-sex couple.

In October 2017, a Maricopa County Superior Court judge denied Brush & Nib’s

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effort to thwart the Phoenix ordinance. The ADF then appealed to the Arizona Court of Appeals, which affirmed the Superior Court ruling in June 2018. Lambda Legal submitted a friend-of-the-court brief to the appellate court as well.

Brush & Nib is one of at least four cases active in state and federal courts in which businesses are claiming a religious license to discriminate and in which Lambda Legal is involved either through direct representation, or as amicus. These include: Klein (dba Sweetcakes by Melissa) v. Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries, in which Lambda Legal represents the lesbian couple denied service by the bakers, the Oregon courts

said TLC Commissioner Meera Joshi.

Morrison appealed the TLC ruling to the New York City Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings (OATH), saying that it was all a misunderstanding, that he never asked anyone if they were Gay, and he didn’t know why the pair left his cab.

OATH, however, affirmed the TLC ruling.

“Here, after repeatedly and discriminatorily confirming that the (complainant’s) friend was Gay…respondent indicated that he does not drive Gay men,” wrote administrative law judge Fidel Del Valle for OATH. Morrison has already served his suspension and paid the fine, and is back on the road, TLC officials confirmed.

Like New York City, Seattle also has ordinances and city policies protecting its LGBT community, and Washington state law clearly forbids anti-LGBT discrimination in public accommodations, like taxis and limousines.

Complaints can be filed with the City of Seattle Human Rights Commission or with the Washington State Human Rights Commission.

“The court has ruled, and I said we’ll accept it,” he said in a debate. “And guess what, I just went to a wedding of a friend of mine who happens to be gay. Because somebody doesn’t think the way I do doesn’t mean that I can’t care about them or can’t love them. So if one of my daughters happened to be that, of course I would love them and I would accept them. Because you know what? That’s what we’re taught when we have strong faith.”

Kasich has been mentioned as a possible primary opponent for Donald Trump in 2020, if Trump chooses to run for reelection.

rejected the bakers’ religion and speech defenses and awarded damages to our clients, and the bakers have petitioned the US Supreme Court to review the Oregon courts’ rulings; Ingersoll and Freed v.

Arlene’s Flowers, in which the US Supreme Court reversed and sent back a Supreme Court of Washington ruling in favor of a gay couple denied service by a florist, and Lambda Legal is supporting the couple as a friend of the court; and Cervelli v. Aloha Bed & Breakfast, in which Lambda Legal represents a lesbian couple denied lodging at a Hawai’i B&B, the Hawai’i courts have rejected the business owner’s religion and speech defenses, and the owner is seeking US Supreme Court review.

The case is Brush & Nib v. City of Phoenix. Read the brief here: https://www.lambdalegal.org/in-court/legal-docs/brush-andnib_az_20181220_lambda-legal-supplemental-amicus-brief Read about Lambda Legal’s work fighting religious exemptions here: https://www. lambdalegal.org/blog/topic/religiousexemptions.

Read our brief in Masterpiece Cakeshop here: https://www.lambdalegal. org/in-court/cases/masterpiece-cakes-vco-civil-rights-commission.

Lambda Legal’s Law and Policy Director Jennifer C. Pizer authored the amicus brief for Lambda Legal.

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