Friend of the Court Briefs
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We have been invited by the law firm Kramer Levin to participate as signatories to several friend of the court briefs in cases regarding the equal rights of LGBTQIA+ people in the United States.
For more information on these cases and on our participation, please click here.
The briefs we have participated in include the following. To read a brief, click on the link:
- US v Windsor, in the US Supreme Court, 28 February 2013:
- Hollingsworth v Perry, in the US Supreme Court, 28 February 2013:
- Kitchen v Herbert (Utah) and Bishop v Smith (Oklahoma), before the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals, 4 March 2014:
- Baskin v Zoeller (Indiana), before the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, 5 August 2014:
- DeLeon v Perry (Texas), before the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, 16 September 2014:
- Smith v Wright, before the Arkansas Supreme Court, 3 October 2014:
- Brenner v Armstrong (Florida) and Grimsley v Armstrong (Florida), before the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, 19 December 2014:
- Lopez-Aviles v. Rius-Armendariz (Puerto Rico), before the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals, 2 February 2015:
- Obergefell v Hodges (Ohio), Tanco v Haslam (Tennessee), DeBoer v Snyder (Michigan), and Bourke v Beshear (Kentucky), all from the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals and before the US Supreme Court, 6 March 2015:
- Lawson v Kelly (Missouri), before the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals, 26 March 2015:
- Rosenbrahn v Daugaard (South Dakota), before the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals, 26 March 2015:
- Jernigan v McDaniel (Arkansas), before the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals, 26 March 2015:
- Waters v Ricketts (Nebraska), before the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals, 26 March, 2015:
- Barber v Bryant (Mississippi), before the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, 23 December 2016:
- Fulton v City of Philadelphia (Pennsylvania), before the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, 4 October 2018:
- Arlene's Flowers (Washington State), before the Washington Supreme Court, 5 March 2019:
- Workplace Discrimination, before the US Supreme Court, 3 July 2019:
- Fulton v City of Philadelphia, before the US Supreme Court, 20 August 2020:
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