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.

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Justice Breyer And The SCOTUS Shortlist

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 

LGBTQ Rights in Schools

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  

Holiday Law Notes Episode

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 

Law Notes Episode: International Intrigue and More

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.

Non-Binary Actor Files Discrimination Complaint Against HAMILTON

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 

UK Court Overturns Puberty Blockers Ruling for Trans Youth & More

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

Law Notes Episode: Healthcare Access, Jury Service and More

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 

Religious Discrimination in Schools, Hospitals, and More

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   

Blockbuster June SCOTUS Summary

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.

Breaking: Fulton v Philly Decision Day

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. 

LGBT Law Notes Summer Mixtape

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.

Law Notes: Transgender and Non-Binary Rights

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. 

LGBTQ Fairness in the Courts

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     

New Leadership at the Civil Rights Division

Eric Lesh, Executive Director of the LGBT Bar Association of New York, speaks with Director of the ACLU LGBT & HIV Project, James Esseks, about the recent Supreme Court ruling in favor of LGBTQ workers and the religious exemption case, currently pending before SCOTUS, that could blow a constitutional hole in our nation's civil rights laws.  

From a SCOTUS Win to a Possible Loss in One Year

Featuring lively discussion of the latest legal news affecting the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community here and abroad. Interviews with LGBTQ lawyers, policy wonks and activists. Our monthly LGBT Law Notes episode with Professor Art Leonard digs into three of the most important new LGBT civil rights rulings. Eric Lesh, executive director of the LGBT Bar of NY hosts.

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