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Family & Relationships
Case: Debra H. v. Janice R.
STATUS: Partial victory, New York
The National Center for Lesbian Rights filed an amicus brief in a case wherein two women separated and one mother refused to allow the other mother contact after 4.5 years of shared custody.
Family & Relationships
Case: D.A. v. J.W.
STATUS: Victory, FL
The National Center for Lesbian Rights filed an appeal on behalf of D.A. to dismiss a restraining order against her because her consensual relationship with a woman was deemed “dating violence.”
Family & Relationships
Case: Colombia Diversa, Expediente No. D-6362, Corte Constitucional de Colombia
STATUS: Victory, Colombia, Corte Constitucional de Colombia
The National Center for Lesbian Rights filed an amicus brief challenging Colombia’s marriage laws that excluded same-sex couples under the Colombian Consitution’s equal protection provision.
Family & Relationships
Case: Charisma R. v. Kristina S.
STATUS: Victory, California
Charisma R. and Kristina S. were in a committed relationship for 6 years. They decided to have children together, and Kristina gave birth to their child in 2003. They started a baby journal and sent out a joint birth announcement. Charisma and Kristina cared for their child together, and Charisma provided the primary care after Kristina returned to work. When their child was only a few months old, Kristina abruptly left their shared home and refused to allow Charisma to have any contact with their baby.
Additional Civil Rights
Case: Benitez v. North Coast Women’s Care Medical Group
STATUS: CA, California Supreme Court
The National Center for Lesbian Rights filed an amicus brief in a case involving a lesbian denied fertility treatments by her healthcare organization because of her sexual orientation.
Family & Relationships
Case: Karen Atala Riffo v. Chile
STATUS: Victory, Inter-American Human Rights Commission
NCLR joined an amicus brief in a successful case against Chile for denying a lesbian mother custody of her children.
Additional Civil Rights
Case: Steven Apilado, et al. v. North American Gay Amateur Athletic Association
STATUS: Victory, WA
The National Center for Lesbian Rights filed and settled a case that reinstated three bisexual players disqualified from the Gay Softball World Series.
Additional Civil Rights
Case: Young v. IPS
STATUS: Victory, Illinois
YOUNG V. IPS Dynasty Young is an openly gay young man who faced relentless, severe harassment and abuse by peers at Arsenal Technical High School in Indianapolis Public Schools.
Family & Relationships
Case: Port v. Cowan
STATUS: Victory, Maryland
NCLR appealed and won a Maryland judge’s denial of a divorce to two women who validly married in California.
Family & Relationships
Case: Nancy C. v. Alameda County Fire Department
STATUS: Victory, California
NCLR advocated for Nancy C., an emergency dispatcher in California who sought to have her wife added as a beneficiary to her health and retirement plans under SB 54, but was told she could not.