Press Release

Civil Rights Groups Urge Court to Dismiss Challenge to Basic Student Protections

by NCLR Staff | Mar 19, 2009 | State legislation, Youth justice, Act, GSA, SB 777, Student Civil Rights, LGBT youth

(Sacramento, CA, March 19, 2009)—Civil rights groups representing thousands of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) Californians filed a friend-of- the-court brief on Wednesday in support of Attorney General Jerry Brown’s request to dismiss a lawsuit seeking to invalidate SB 777, the Student Civil Rights Act. The amicus brief by the National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR), Lambda Legal, the Transgender Law Center, Equality California, and Gay Straight Alliance Network (GSA...