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The SPLC today filed an amicus brief in support of a federal judge’s decision to temporarily block a Mississippi law allowing business owners and government workers to refuse service to LGBT people.
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The following statement is from Richard Cohen, president of the Southern Poverty Law Center, in response to Roy Moore’s appeal regarding his suspension.
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A transgender man in Louisiana has won a sex discrimination case against a financial services company that he said fired him in 2013 after he refused the company’s demand to dress and be treated as a woman.
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The United States has always been defined by a fundamental belief in the rule of law. Indeed, it's a cornerstone of our democracy, one that separates our nation from so many others.
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The Alabama Court of the Judiciary heard testimony today in a trial to determine whether state Chief Justice Roy Moore violated judicial ethics when he advised state officials to ignore federal court orders and uphold the state’s unconstitutional ban on same-sex marriage.
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In response to preliminary injunction granted today by a federal judge in Texas v. U.S., blocking the May 2016 guidance by the Obama administration interpreting Title IX to protect transgender students, the following statement is by David Dinielli, deputy legal director, Southern Poverty Law Center.
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The Alabama Court of the Judiciary today held a hearing to determine whether to issue a summary judgment in the ethics case against Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore.
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The Southern Poverty Law Center strongly condemns the possible inclusion of an anti-gay, conversion therapy plank in the Republican Party platform that will be adopted at the party’s convention next week.
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From the earliest hours of the tragedy in Orlando, one fact was not in dispute: The worst mass shooting in U.S. history was committed by a killer who targeted LGBT people for murder.
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A federal judge ruled this week that Alabama officials must abide by the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling legalizing same-sex marriage despite contrary statements by the Alabama Supreme Court– a victory for the SPLC and other civil rights groups that fought to secure marriage equality in the state.
