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Ask, Don’t Tell” (Able v. U.S. Co-Counsel with Lambda Legal) • Oregon court finds state’s health insurance policy, which denies benefits to domestic partners, violates the state constitution (Tanner v. OHSU) 1999 • Maryland court strikes down sodomy law (Williams v. Glendenning) • Mississippi high court permits son’s visita tion with gay father and partner (Weigand v. Houghton) • Maine homeless shelter admits it was wrong to exclude HIV-positive client • Federal employee wins leave of absence to take care of cancer-stricken partner • Nevada becomes 11th state to pass a gay employment rights law • Challenge to dismissal of high-level state transgender employee is successfully settled (Doe V. Kansas) 2000 • New Jersey Supreme Court extends legal doctrine of “psychological parent” to parents in same-sex relationship (V.C. v. M.J.B) • Transgender Northern California high school teacher successfully defeats efforts to take away her teaching credential (Warfield v. California Commission on Teacher Credentialing) • Federal appeals court rules that HIV-positive candidate for police department has the right to be “protected from discrimination founded on fear, ignorance or misconcep tions.” (Holiday v. City of Chattanooga) • Vermont becomes the first state to establish civil unions. • U.S. Supreme Court rules that public univer sities can collect student activities fees even from students who object to LGBT student groups (Southworth v. Crebe) • Religious Liberty Protection Act, which would have set up religious defenses to civil rights actions, is derated 2001 • Federal court strikes down challenge on reli gious grounds by Pat Robertson-funded legal group to Louisville’s ordinance banning discrimination on the basis of sexual orien tation (Hyman v. Louisville) • Minnesota court strikes down sodomy law (Doe V. Watson) ‘ • Federal appeals court upholds San Francisco law requiring any company that does busi ness with the city to recognize domestic partnerships (ATA v. San Francisco) • New York high court holds that housing poli cy favoring married students discriminates against lesbians and gay men (Levin v. Yeshiva University) • Federal appeals court rules that public offi cials cannot compel minors to disclose their sexual orientation to family members (Sterling v. Minersville) • Federal court rules that emergency medical personnel cannot be forced to take HIV tests (Doe V. An Oregon Resort) • Federal court upholds right of gay/straight alliance to sue to stop harassment of stu dents (Loomis V. Visalia Unified School District) 2002 • Maryland court strikes measure to repeal gay rights law from the ballot • Federal appeals court issues decision allow ing gay man to sue the police for failing to protect him because of his sexual orientation (Swidrisky v. HSuston) • Federal appeals court rejects claim that deci sion to allow transgender woman to use women’s room violates freedom of religion. (Cruzan v. Minneapolis) • Unprecedented court set tlement calling for dis trict-wide reforms of Northern California case involving harassment of LGBT high school stu dents (Loomis V. Visalia Unified School District) • First state appeals court ruling that constitutional equality rights prohibit firing of public employee because of her sexual ori entation (Davis V. Pullman Memorial Hospital) 2003 • Effort by rural Kentucky school district to avoid recognizing a gay student club by banning all extra-curricular clubs fails (Boyd County High School Cay-Straight Alliance v. Board of Education) • Federal appeals court requires school offi cials to take effective, proactive steps to elim inate homophobic harassment when they learn that gay students are being harassed (Flores v. Morgan Hill Unified School District. Co-counsel with National Center for Lesbian Rights) • Successful lawsuit for Arkansas student outed by school officials and then disciplined (in part by being compelled to read passages from the Bible) for talking about being gay to other students (McLaughlin v. Pulaski County Special School District) In the historic file an amicus Lawrence v. Texas, the ACLU was there to brief in the case, which was brought forth by Lambda Legal. • California enacts legislation providing the best domestic partnership protections in the nation except for Vermont • U.S. Supreme Court strikes down all remain ing sodomy laws, ruling that same-sex rela tionships deserve the same dignity and respect accorded heterosexual relationships (Lawrence v. Texas. ACUJ as amicus in a case see aclu on 16 STRAIGHT TEETH IN SIX MONTHS. NO, WE'RE NOT PULLING A FAST ONE. RiBEca SCHMORR Thanks to the latest technologies, we can move your teeth quickly, safely and with less discomfort. The only catch? 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