All posts tagged "Mississippi"
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Mississippi city faces lawsuit for blocking Pride parade
After a 4-3 vote denied the parade, acclaimed LGBTQ lawyer Roberta Kaplan will represent the group
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Lambda Legal to continue fight in case of Mississippi funeral home that refused to cremate gay man
LGBTQ legal organization files request to substitute husband's nephew as plaintiff after husband's death
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Supreme Court refuses to hear challenge to Mississippi anti-gay law
Decision not to hear case means plaintiffs must restart case, finding victims injured by law since it took effect in October
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Travel ban over Mississippi’s anti-LGBTQ law disrupts college baseball schedule
A Mississippi law that allows government officials and businesses to refuse service to LGBTQ individuals will force two college baseball teams to miss at least...
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Mississippi’s anti-LGBTQ “religious freedom” law could face Supreme Court challenge
The law allows religious individuals and businesses to discriminate against LGBTQ people
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Mississippi’s anti-LGBTQ “religious freedom” law is now in full effect
HB 1523 condones anti-LGBTQ discrimination based on three specific religious beliefs
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Mississippi’s “religious freedom” law to be appealed to Supreme Court
The attorneys in a case challenging Mississippi’s “religious freedom law” have announced they will appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court after the 5th U.S. Court...
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Southern Discomfort: One Mississippi’s Tig Notaro
Tig Notaro's brilliant One Mississippi celebrates her own warm vision of her home state, while frequently taking it to task.
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Plaintiffs challenging Mississippi “religious freedom” law ask for full 5th Circuit to rehear case
Lawyers representing the plaintiffs who sued to stop a Mississippi “religious freedom” law from taking effect have asked the full 5th Circuit to rehear their...
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5th Circuit allows Mississippi “religious freedom” law to go into effect
The conservative 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has lifted a preliminary injunction against Mississippi’s “religious freedom” law allowing discrimination against LGBTQ people and others...
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Lesbian parental rights case appealed to Mississippi Supreme Court
Lawyers representing a lesbian woman who is being denied her parental rights have appealed a lower court’s ruling against her to the Mississippi Supreme Court. The...
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Mississippi man sentenced to 49 years in prison for murdering transgender girlfriend
A Mississippi man who is a member of the Latin Kings gang has been sentenced to 49 years in prison for killing his former girlfriend because she...
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Gay man sues Mississippi funeral home for refusing to cremate husband
Humiliating refusal of service highlights what behavior would be condoned under a "religious freedom" law
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5th Circuit hears challenge to Mississippi “religious freedom” law
The U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals heard oral arguments in the case of Barber v. Bryant, a challenge to Mississippi’s so-called “religious freedom” law, HB...
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Federal court to hear challenge to Mississippi’s anti-LGBTQ “religious freedom” law
Law would have granted people who subscribe to 3 specific religious beliefs carte blanche to discriminate against gays
