Making The Case with Lambda Legal

For this season’s final episode, we discuss several overlapping cases all strung together by the thread of discrimination against LGBTQ+ people in the context of child welfare and other federally funded programs. In Easter v. HHS, Marouf v. Becerra, Rogers v. HHS and Facing Foster Care in Alaska v. HHS, Lambda Legal is fighting to protect LGBTQ+ people, to ensure children who can’t safely return home have a loving family available to care for them and to expand the meaning of safe and loving homes.   Link to read the full episode transcript, here. For more information on Making the Case and to access our resource hub on each episode and case, please visit: https://www.lambdalegal.org/makingthecase Making the Case with Lambda Legal is a short form interview series featuring Lambda Legal attorneys discussing impactful cases and policy work. Lambda Legal has a rich history of successfully litigating some of the most consequential lawsuits impacting LGBTQ+ and HIV civil rights over its nearly 50-year existence. Through the interviews, listeners will learn about the creative strategies, unique challenges, and passion necessary to win. Listeners will walk away with a clear understanding of each cases legacy and impact as well as how those cases left a mark on the law and on hearts and minds. Check out more resources for episode ten, here. This podcast is intended to serve as general information; it is not legal advice nor intended as legal advice. For individual legal advice, please contact an attorney. If you need information and resources relating to discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression, and HIV status please visit our help desk at: https://www.lambdalegal.org/helpdesk    Producer: Erika Kramer (@goforkramer)Host: Alex Berg (@itsalexberg)Sound Recording and Mixing: Erik Monical of Mouth Media NetworkLogo Design: Michelle HolmeMusic: Meghan Rose (@meghanrose)  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Two cases challenging discriminatory policies that denied millions of dollars in social security survivor’s benefits to same-sex couples who were prevented from satisfying marriage-related requirements because of unconstitutional marriage bans.  Link to read the full episode transcript, here. For more information on Making the Case and to access our resource hub on each episode and case, please visit: https://www.lambdalegal.org/makingthecase Making the Case with Lambda Legal is a short form interview series featuring Lambda Legal attorneys discussing impactful cases and policy work. Lambda Legal has a rich history of successfully litigating some of the most consequential lawsuits impacting LGBTQ+ and HIV civil rights over its nearly 50-year existence. Through the interviews, listeners will learn about the creative strategies, unique challenges, and passion necessary to win. Listeners will walk away with a clear understanding of each cases legacy and impact as well as how those cases left a mark on the law and on hearts and minds. Check out more resources for episode nine, here. This podcast is intended to serve as general information; it is not legal advice nor intended as legal advice. For individual legal advice, please contact an attorney. If you need information and resources relating to discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression, and HIV status please visit our help desk at: https://www.lambdalegal.org/helpdesk    Producer: Erika Kramer (@goforkramer)Host: Alex Berg (@itsalexberg)Sound Recording and Mixing: Erik Monical of Mouth Media NetworkLogo Design: Michelle HolmeMusic: Meghan Rose (@meghanrose)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Colín v. Orange Unified School District was a groundbreaking case arguing for the right of students to form a gay-straight alliance and to become a recognized student club.  Link to read the full episode transcript, here. For more information on Making the Case and to access our resource hub on each episode and case, please visit: https://www.lambdalegal.org/makingthecase Making the Case with Lambda Legal is a short form interview series featuring Lambda Legal attorneys discussing impactful cases and policy work. Lambda Legal has a rich history of successfully litigating some of the most consequential lawsuits impacting LGBTQ+ and HIV civil rights over its nearly 50-year existence. Through the interviews, listeners will learn about the creative strategies, unique challenges, and passion necessary to win. Listeners will walk away with a clear understanding of each cases legacy and impact as well as how those cases left a mark on the law and on hearts and minds. Check out more resources for episode eight, here. This podcast is intended to serve as general information; it is not legal advice nor intended as legal advice. For individual legal advice, please contact an attorney. If you need information and resources relating to discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression, and HIV status please visit our help desk at: https://www.lambdalegal.org/helpdesk    Producer: Erika Kramer (@goforkramer)Host: Alex Berg (@itsalexberg)Sound Recording and Mixing: Erik Monical of Mouth Media NetworkLogo Design: Michelle HolmeMusic: Meghan Rose (@meghanrose)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Join Counsel Omar Gonzalez-Pagan as he discusses Smith v. Avanti, a federal discrimination lawsuit Lambda Legal filed against a property owner in Colorado who violated the federal Fair Housing Act by refusing to rent a housing unit to a same-sex couple, one of whom is transgender, and their children because she worried their “uniqueness” would jeopardize her standing in the community. Link to read the full episode transcript, here. For more information on Making the Case and to access our resource hub on each episode and case, please visit: https://www.lambdalegal.org/makingthecase Making the Case with Lambda Legal is a short form interview series featuring Lambda Legal attorneys discussing impactful cases and policy work. Lambda Legal has a rich history of successfully litigating some of the most consequential lawsuits impacting LGBTQ+ and HIV civil rights over its nearly 50-year existence. Through the interviews, listeners will learn about the creative strategies, unique challenges, and passion necessary to win. Listeners will walk away with a clear understanding of each cases legacy and impact as well as how those cases left a mark on the law and on hearts and minds. Check out more resources for episode seven, here. This podcast is intended to serve as general information; it is not legal advice nor intended as legal advice. For individual legal advice, please contact an attorney. If you need information and resources relating to discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression, and HIV status please visit our help desk at: https://www.lambdalegal.org/helpdesk    Producer: Erika Kramer (@goforkramer)Host: Alex Berg (@itsalexberg)Sound Recording and Mixing: Erik Monical of Mouth Media NetworkLogo Design: Michelle HolmeMusic: Meghan Rose (@meghanrose)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In some of the most historic wins for everyone living with HIV in America of the past several decades, Lambda Legal took on the Pentagon, challenging its unjust policies preventing enlistment, deployment, or commissioning as an officer if a person is living with HIV. Link to read the full episode transcript, here. https://www.lambdalegal.org/publications/makingthecase_20220714_transcript6 For more information on Making the Case and to access our resource hub on each episode and case, please visit: https://www.lambdalegal.org/makingthecase Making the Case with Lambda Legal is a short form interview series featuring Lambda Legal attorneys discussing impactful cases and policy work. Lambda Legal has a rich history of successfully litigating some of the most consequential lawsuits impacting LGBTQ+ and HIV civil rights over its nearly 50-year existence. Through the interviews, listeners will learn about the creative strategies, unique challenges, and passion necessary to win. Listeners will walk away with a clear understanding of each cases legacy and impact as well as how those cases left a mark on the law and on hearts and minds. Check out more resources for episode six, here. This podcast is intended to serve as general information; it is not legal advice nor intended as legal advice. For individual legal advice, please contact an attorney. If you need information and resources relating to discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression, and HIV status please visit our help desk at: https://www.lambdalegal.org/helpdesk    Producer: Erika Kramer (@goforkramer)Host: Alex Berg (@itsalexberg)Sound Recording and Mixing: Erik Monical of Mouth Media NetworkLogo Design: Michelle HolmeMusic: Meghan Rose (@meghanrose)  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Lambda Legal filed a lawsuit in Louisiana on behalf of Liam Pierce, a lifelong public servant, after the Iberia Parish Sheriff’s office rescinded a job offer as a Sheriff's Deputy because he is living with HIV. Link to read the full episode transcript, here. For more information on Making the Case and to access our resource hub on each episode and case, please visit: https://www.lambdalegal.org/makingthecase Making the Case with Lambda Legal is a short form interview series featuring Lambda Legal attorneys discussing impactful cases and policy work. Lambda Legal has a rich history of successfully litigating some of the most consequential lawsuits impacting LGBTQ+ and HIV civil rights over its nearly 50-year existence. Through the interviews, listeners will learn about the creative strategies, unique challenges, and passion necessary to win. Listeners will walk away with a clear understanding of each cases legacy and impact as well as how those cases left a mark on the law and on hearts and minds. Check out more resources for episode five, here. This podcast is intended to serve as general information; it is not legal advice nor intended as legal advice. For individual legal advice, please contact an attorney. If you need information and resources relating to discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression, and HIV status please visit our help desk at: https://www.lambdalegal.org/helpdesk    Producer: Erika Kramer (@goforkramer)Host: Alex Berg (@itsalexberg)Sound Recording and Mixing: Erik Monical of Mouth Media NetworkLogo Design: Michelle HolmeMusic: Meghan Rose (@meghanrose)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Bostock case, decided by SCOTUS in 2020, approved the analysis Lambda Legal has been advancing for more than 15 years–that discrimination based on gender identity or on sexual orientation is sex discrimination under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.     Link to read the full episode transcript, here. For more information on Making the Case and to access our resource hub on each episode and case, please visit: https://www.lambdalegal.org/makingthecase Making the Case with Lambda Legal is a short form interview series featuring Lambda Legal attorneys discussing impactful cases and policy work. Lambda Legal has a rich history of successfully litigating some of the most consequential lawsuits impacting LGBTQ+ and HIV civil rights over its nearly 50-year existence. Through the interviews, listeners will learn about the creative strategies, unique challenges, and passion necessary to win. Listeners will walk away with a clear understanding of each cases legacy and impact as well as how those cases left a mark on the law and on hearts and minds. Check out more resources for episode four, here. This podcast is intended to serve as general information; it is not legal advice nor intended as legal advice. For individual legal advice, please contact an attorney. If you need information and resources relating to discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression, and HIV status please visit our help desk at: https://www.lambdalegal.org/helpdesk    Producer: Erika Kramer (@goforkramer)Host: Alex Berg (@itsalexberg)Sound Recording and Mixing: Erik Monical of Mouth Media NetworkLogo Design: Michelle HolmeMusic: Meghan Rose (@meghanrose)  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In a groundbreaking 8-3 decision, the full Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation violates federal civil rights law. This came after Lambda Legal urged the Court to reverse a lower court ruling and allow Kimberly Hively to present her case alleging that Ivy Tech Community College, where she worked as an instructor for 14 years, denied her full time employment and promotions and eventually terminated her employment because she is a lesbian. Listen in as Senior Counsel Greg Nevins and Former Chief Strategy Officer and Legal Director Sharon McGowan discuss the years long process to get to this case. Link to read the full episode transcript, here. For more information on Making the Case and to access our resource hub on each episode and case, please visit: https://www.lambdalegal.org/makingthecase Making the Case with Lambda Legal is a short form interview series featuring Lambda Legal attorneys discussing impactful cases and policy work. Lambda Legal has a rich history of successfully litigating some of the most consequential lawsuits impacting LGBTQ+ and HIV civil rights over its nearly 50-year existence. Through the interviews, listeners will learn about the creative strategies, unique challenges, and passion necessary to win. Listeners will walk away with a clear understanding of each cases legacy and impact as well as how those cases left a mark on the law and on hearts and minds. Check out more resources for episode three, here. This podcast is intended to serve as general information; it is not legal advice nor intended as legal advice. For individual legal advice, please contact an attorney. If you need information and resources relating to discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression, and HIV status please visit our help desk at: https://www.lambdalegal.org/helpdesk    Producer: Erika Kramer (@goforkramer)Host: Alex Berg (@itsalexberg)Sound Recording and Mixing: Erik Monical of Mouth Media NetworkLogo Design: Michelle HolmeMusic: Meghan Rose (@meghanrose)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Argued from 2001-2009, Benitez v. North Coast Women's Care Medical Group was a case led by Senior Counsel, and now Acting Chief Legal Officer, Jenny Pizer in California. The case argued that health care providers' personal religious beliefs do not excuse discrimination against LGBTQ+ patients in pursuit of medical care. Link to read the full episode transcript, here For more information on Making the Case and to access our resource hub on each episode and case, please visit: https://www.lambdalegal.org/makingthecase Making the Case with Lambda Legal is a short form interview series featuring Lambda Legal attorneys discussing impactful cases and policy work. Lambda Legal has a rich history of successfully litigating some of the most consequential lawsuits impacting LGBTQ+ and HIV civil rights over its nearly 50-year existence. Through the interviews, listeners will learn about the creative strategies, unique challenges, and passion necessary to win. Listeners will walk away with a clear understanding of each cases legacy and impact as well as how those cases left a mark on the law and on hearts and minds. Check out more resources for episode two, here This podcast is intended to serve as general information; it is not legal advice nor intended as legal advice. For individual legal advice, please contact an attorney. If you need information and resources relating to discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression, and HIV status please visit our help desk at: https://www.lambdalegal.org/helpdesk    Producer: Erika Kramer (@goforkramer) Host: Alex Berg (@itsalexberg) Sound Recording and Mixing: Erik Monical of Mouth Media Network Logo Design: Michelle Holme Music: Meghan Rose(@meghanrose)    See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In late 2004, Lambda Legal filed the Varnum v. Brien case arguing the state of Iowa should legalize same-sex marriage. Deputy Legal Director for Litigation, Camilla Taylor walks us through this landmark case and the creative ways in which the team argued the State's limitations violated the equal protection clause of the Iowa Constitution. Link to read the full episode transcript, here. For more information on Making the Case and to access our resource hub on each episode and case, please visit: https://www.lambdalegal.org/makingthecase Making the Case with Lambda Legal is a short form interview series featuring Lambda Legal attorneys discussing impactful cases and policy work. Lambda Legal has a rich history of successfully litigating some of the most consequential lawsuits impacting LGBTQ+ and HIV civil rights over its nearly 50-year existence. Through the interviews, listeners will learn about the creative strategies, unique challenges, and passion necessary to win. Listeners will walk away with a clear understanding of each cases legacy and impact as well as how those cases left a mark on the law and on hearts and minds. Check out more resources for episode one, here. This podcast is intended to serve as general information; it is not legal advice nor intended as legal advice. For individual legal advice, please contact an attorney. If you need information and resources relating to discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression, and HIV status please visit our help desk at: https://www.lambdalegal.org/helpdesk    Producer: Erika Kramer (@goforkramer) Host: Alex Berg (@itsalexberg) Sound Recording and Mixing: Erik Monical of Mouth Media Network Logo Design: Michelle Holme Music: Meghan Rose(@meghanrose)    See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.