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Shain Filcher, Executive Director of the LGBT Bar of NY and Professor Art Leonard of New York Law School, discuss three important cases from the June 2022 edition of LGBT Law Notes. 

Eric Lesh, Executive Director of the LGBT Bar of NY and Professor Art Leonard of New York Law School, discuss three important cases from the May edition of LGBT Law Notes.  U.S. District Court Rules Against Defense Department in Cases of HIV-Positive Service Members  Federal District Court Refuses to Dismiss Mother’s ACA Discrimination Claim Against Insurer That Won’t Cover Her Transgender Son’s Gender-Affirming Care Trump Alumni Group Engineers Challenge to Bostock Application Outside of Title VII.

Eric Lesh, Executive Director of the LGBT Bar of NY and Professor Art Leonard of New York Law School, discuss three important cases from the April edition of LGBT Law Notes.  Plaintiffs Win Summary Judgment Against Former Rowan County (Kentucky) Clerk Kim Davis in Marriage License Case Texas Court Blocks Investigation or Prosecution of Parents and Doctors for Providing Gender-Affirming Treatment for Transgender Youths District Court Judge Rules on Summary Judgment Motions After HIV-Positive Man Was Denied A Job As A Security Officer For Fear Of Spreading HIV To Patients.

Eric Lesh, Executive Director of the LGBT Bar Association of New York and Andrew Teig, Managing Director at Major Lindsey & Africa  discuss the importance of networking, the current job makes for lawyers on the look, and how to build a career that you enjoy.    

Eric Lesh, Executive Director of the LGBT Bar of NY and Professor Art Leonard of New York Law School, discuss three important cases from the March edition of LGBT Law Notes.  U.S. Supreme Court Will Hear Free Speech Challenge to Colorado Anti-Discrimination Law Brought by Web Designer Who Opposes Marriage Equality Kentucky Federal Court Rejects Claims against Insurer that Denied Coverage for Facial Surgery As Part of Gender Transition New York City Teacher Dismissed After Complaint by Homophobic Fourth Grader Suffers Dismissal of Title VII Claim

Eric Lesh, Executive Director of the LGBT Bar of NY and Professor Art Leonard of New York Law School, discuss three important cases from the February edition of LGBT Law Notes.  5th Circuit Panels Deny Refugee Relief to Latin American Petitioners Oregon Appeals Court Gives Sweetcakes by Melissa Another Chance to Avoid Paying Damages for Violating State Anti-Discrimination Law Damages Cases Involving Sexual Assault of Prisoners by Guards Highlight Difficulties Obtaining Justice for Inmate Victims

This week we were surprised with news that Justice Stephen Breyer, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, plans to retire after the current term ends in June. Eric Lesh, Executive Director of the LGBT Bar of NY and Northeastern Law School Professor Ari Ezra Waldman discuss Justice Breyer’s impact of the law and his LGBTQ rights legacy. President Biden confirmed his intent to honor his campaign commitment to nominate a Black woman to the Supreme Court. Eric and Ari chat about some of the names that are being floated as possible replacements. Prof. Ari Ezra Waldman is a professor of law and computer science at Northeastern University. He directs the School of Law's Center for Law, Information and Creativity (CLIC).  He is also the founder of @Legally_Queer, a social media project that educates the public about the history, present and future of LGBTQ freedom.

Eric Lesh, Executive Director of the LGBT Bar of NY and Professor Art Leonard of New York Law School, discuss three important cases from the January edition of LGBT Law Notes. The thread connecting the three cases is that they are all school cases involving queer students and access to equal opportunities. U.S. District Court Orders Indiana High School to Provide Equal Privileges to Gay-Straight Student Alliance Federal District Court Refuses to Dismiss Challenge to West Virginia Law Banning Trans Girls from Scholastic Athletic Competition U.S. District Court Rules Against Maryland School Choice Program’s Antidiscrimination Policy on Free Speech Grounds

Eric Lesh, Executive Director of the LGBT Bar of NY and Professor Art Leonard of New York Law School, discuss three important cases from the December edition of LGBT Law Notes.  Texas Federal Judge Shields Church Employers and Non-Church Employers with Religious Objections From Title VII Anti-LGBTQ Discrimination Claims Indiana Appeals Court Revives Discharged Gay Teacher’s Tort Suit Against Archdiocese of Indianapolis California Court of Appeal Affirms Order for Gender Affirming Treatment for a “Dependent Child of the Court” Over Mother’s Protest  

Eric Lesh, Executive Director of the LGBT Bar of NY and Professor Art Leonard of New York Law School, discuss three important cases from the November edition of LGBT Law Notes.  Biden Administration Drops Trump Administration’s Appeals of Lambda Legal’s Social Security Benefits Victories for Surviving Partners/Spouses European Court of Human Rights Finds Polish Courts Violated Lesbian Mother’s Convention Rights in Custody Ruling 11th Circuit Affirms Dismissal on Pleadings of Transgender Inmate’s Rape Claims, Refusing to Consider Absence of Risk Screening Required by Prison Rape Elimination Act

On this episode of the LeGaL LGBT Podcast, Eric Lesh speaks with Lindsay Goldbrum, an Associate at Wigdor LLP, about what its like to be a plaintiff-side lawyer in LGBT employment discrimination cases. This episode focuses largely on the federal workplace complaint Lindsay and her firm filed on behalf of Suni Reid, a former cast member of Hamilton the musical, who identifies as non-binary. In the complaint Suni alleges “frequent incidents of discrimination and harassment” and ultimately retaliation as a result of their gender neutral dressing room request.

Eric Lesh, Executive Director of the LGBT Bar of NY and Professor Art Leonard of New York Law School, discuss three important cases from the October edition of LGBT Law Notes.  10th Circuit Panel Orders Discharged Transgender Professor Reinstated with Tenure UK Court of Appeal Confirms that Children under 18 Can Consent to Take Puberty Blockers Failure to Protect Florida Gay Inmate from Bashing in Prison with “Homophobic Culture” Is “Certainly Concerning,” but Raises No Jury Questions under Eighth or Fourteenth Amendments

Eric Lesh, Executive Director of the LGBT Bar of NY and Professor Art Leonard of New York Law School, discuss three important cases from the September edition of LGBT Law Notes.  1. Court Bars Federal Government from Enforcing Affordable Care Act’s Sex Discrimination Ban Against Some Christian Health Care Providers 2. Texas Appeals Court Affirms Conviction of Murderer of Transgender Individual 3. Massachusetts High Court Recognizes that Constitutional Protections from Jury Discrimination Apply to Sexual Orientation

Eric Lesh, Executive Director of the LGBT Bar of NY and Professor Art Leonard of New York Law School, discuss three important cases from the August edition of LGBT Law Notes.  Read Law Notes here.  Donate to LeGaL the LGBT Bar of NY En Banc 7th Circuit Categorically Exempts Religious Organizations from Hostile Work Environment Claims Brought by a Gay “Ministerial Employee” California Appeals Court Strikes Misgendering Provision from Patient Bill of Rights Maryland Federal Court Refuses to Dismiss ACA Suit Against University Hospital for Cancelling Transgender Plaintiff’s Hysterectomy on Religious Grounds

Eric Lesh, Executive Director of the LGBT Bar of NY and Professor Art Leonard of New York Law School, discuss three important cases from the July edition of LGBT Law Notes.  Supreme Court decides Fulton v Philadelphia and dismisses two other important LGBTQ rights cases; Iowa Supreme Court Reverses Gay Workers’ Compensation Commissioner’s Jury Verdict and $1.5 Million Damage Award; 6th Circuit Rejects Transgender Detroit Employee’s Hostile Environment Complaint  

Listen to our breaking Decision Day Episode of the LeGaL LGBT Podcast, where we hear directly from Professor Art Leonard and LeGaL Executive Director Eric Lesh on what happened at the Supreme Court in Fulton v. City of Philadelphia.

Eric Lesh, Executive Director of the LGBT Bar of NY and Professor Art Leonard of New York Law School, discuss three important cases from the June edition of LGBT Law Notes.  Federal Court Rules That Montana Violated Due Process and Equal Protection Guarantees by Forcing Gay Man to Register as Sex Offender for Consensual Teenage Sex; Fourth Circuit Rules Prisoners Have No Privacy Interest in Their HIV Information; West Virginia Federal Court Refuses to Dismiss Challenges to Insurance Plan Exclusions of Coverage for Transgender Health Care.

Eric Lesh, Executive Director of the LGBT Bar of NY and Professor Art Leonard of New York Law School, discuss three important cases involving transgender and nonbinary litigants from the May edition of LGBT Law Note.

Eric Lesh, Executive Director of the LGBT Bar of NY speaks with the Brennan Center's Alicia Bannon about the stunning lack of judicial diversity on state high courts. We also chat with former host of this podcast, Matthew Skinner about his work to achieve LGBTQ fairness in New York State courts. Finally, we chat with the Co-Chair of the LGBT Bar of New York's Judiciary Committee, Janice Grubin, about how lawyers can get involved in the process of screening candidates for judicial office or seeking office themselves. 

Eric Lesh, Executive Director of the LGBT Bar of NY and Professor Art Leonard of New York Law School, discuss three important LGBT rights cases from the April edition of LGBT Law Notes. Justice Department Explains That Bostock Ruling Informs Interpretation of Federal Sex Discrimination Laws Beyond Title VII; 2nd Circuit Finds Vimeo Immune from Liability for Kicking SOCE Promoter Off its Internet Platform; 6th Circuit Panel Says University Professor May Have 1st Amendment Right to Misgender Transgender Students