By the late 1990s, several men had been identified as likely victims of Herb Baumeister at his Fox Hollow Farm. Now a new team of investigators is trying to finish the task for as many as 25 victims.
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Organizers hope the event will help the legal system better serve and understand the LGBTQ+ community.
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If the last few legislative sessions are any indication of what could be on the horizon for the Indiana General Assembly in 2024, one seemingly safe bet is that the state’s lawmakers will again take up controversial education policy.
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Here is an update on key legislation affecting not only lawyers, but all Hoosiers statewide. Updates are as of March 10.
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Legal challenges to executive orders aimed at transgender people are likely and on Wednesday, the Trump administration sued Maine for not complying with the government’s policies.
President Donald Trump’s executive order says a person is male or female and it rejects the idea that someone can transition from the sex assigned at birth to another gender.
U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes in Washington, D.C., ruled that Trump’s order to exclude transgender troops from military service likely violates their constitutional rights.
The Supreme Court agreed Monday in a case from Colorado to decide whether state and local governments can enforce laws banning conversion therapy for LGBTQ+ children.
The ACLU of Indiana is suing Indiana State University for allegedly canceling a pride festival typically held on its campus and requesting instead that the event be held elsewhere.
Charlie Baker, president of the Indianapolis-based NCAA, said the organization would “take necessary steps to align NCAA policy in the coming days, subject to further guidance from the administration.”
U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth issued the written ruling several hours after a hearing where a plaintiffs’ attorney argued that Trump’s order discriminates against transgender people and violates their constitutional rights.
The American Civil Liberties Union has requested the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals grant a review of its earlier decision to reverse a preliminary injunction against the state law banning gender-affirming medical care for transgender youth.
The justices’ decision, not expected for several months, could affect similar laws enacted by Indiana and 24 other states, as well as a range of other efforts to regulate the lives of transgender people, including which sports competitions they can join and which bathrooms they can use.
Chase Strangio will be the first openly transgender attorney to argue before the nation’s highest court, representing families who say Tennessee’s ban on health care for transgender minors leaves their children terrified about the future.
Donald Trump’s vision for education revolves around a single goal: to rid America’s schools of perceived “ wokeness ” and “left-wing indoctrination.”
The lawsuit on behalf of Ellenor Zinski was filed by the American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia and the Richmond law firm of Butler Curwood.
The Supreme Court is taking the bench again on Monday, ready to hear cases on ghost guns, a death sentence and transgender rights.
The film documents a cross-country trip Hollywood actor Will Ferrell and his close friend Harper Steele embarked on in 2023 and centers on Steele’s transition and identity as a trans woman.
The former president, who has shifted his position over the years on LGBTQ issues, is planning to lead the GOP charge on gender identity if he returns to the White House, according to his campaign and interviews with allies
Lawyers for a Christian homeless shelter are scheduled to be in a federal appeals court Friday to challenge a Washington state anti-discrimination law that would require the charity to hire LGBTQ+ people and others who do not share its religious beliefs, including those on sexuality and marriage.
A federal appeals court on Wednesday refused to lift a judge’s order temporarily blocking the Biden administration’s new Title IX rule meant to expand protections for LGBTQ+ students.
Why is the Project needed? According to the 2023 UCLA School of Law Williams Institute report, around 23% of LGBTQ+ people and a staggering 35% of transgender adults were living in poverty in the United States in 2020 compared to 16% of their straight and cisgender counterparts. While these numbers are improving, the community still faces challenges.
President Joe Biden pardoned potentially thousands of former U.S. service members convicted of violating a now-repealed military ban on consensual gay sex, saying Wednesday that he is “righting an historic wrong” to clear the way for them to regain lost benefits.
The Biden administration’s effort to expand protections for LGBTQ+ students hit another roadblock Monday, when a federal judge in Kentucky temporarily blocked the new Title IX rule in six additional states.