Tag: Lambda Legal
Military leaders are lining up to oppose Trump’s attacks on HIV+ service members
A lawsuit against the removal of two HIV positive airmen from service is getting some big support behind it, including former secretaries of the Army, Navy, and Air Force.
The suit, Roe and Voe v Shanahan, is before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit following a preliminary injunction from February that prevented the Air Force from discharging service members with HIV.
Amicus briefs have now been submitted, including one presented by a number of military leaders, including former...
Gay couple sues Trump administration for refusing their daughter American citizenship
A gay couple is suing the State Department for refusing to recognize their daughter as an American citizen.
Derek Mize and Jonathan Gregg filed a federal lawsuit against the State Department because they are being forced to go through a lengthy process to get an American passport for their daughter Simone, who was born to a surrogate in England with the help of an anonymous egg donor.
Mize and Gregg are married, both are listed on their daughter’s birth certificate, and...
An HIV+ man was refused service at a barbershop. He just won $75,000 in...
A California court ruled in favor of a man who was denied service at a barber shop because he’s HIV-positive.
In 2017, the owner of the King of Kuts barbershop in Los Angeles, Ramsy Milton, refused to cut personal trainer Nikko Briteramos’s hair and said that no one who worked at the shop could either after he found out that Briteramos is living with HIV.
Milton allegedly said that he was worried that his “celebrity clientele” would stop coming to the...
