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STRUCK DOWN. A Nebraska constitutional amendment imposing a BAN ON SAME-SEX MARRIAGE; by U.S. District Judge Joseph Bataillon; in response to a challenge by the American Civil Liberties Union and Lambda Legal; in Lincoln, Neb. The measure, passed by voters in 2000, went further than those in other states by denying such legal protections as health insurance to gay couples, and possibly interfering with rights of adoptive and foster parents. Conservatives unhappy with the ruling vowed to press for a federal...
Peter Renn, the co-president of Lambda, a gay student organization at Harvard Law School, agreed that the decision was predictable and said the appeal “wasn’t a very worthy claim...
Peter Renn, president of Lambda, the Law School’s student gay rights group, applauded Kagan’s move. “The swiftness of her response reflects the seriousness of the harm that was inflicted upon Harvard’s gay and lesbian students each day that the exception to the nondiscrimination policy was in place...
...case, we remain disappointed and ashamed that Harvard University refused to join FAIR and therefore played no part in today’s victory,” Peter Renn and Sam Tepperman-Gelfant ’00, co-presidents of the Law School student gay rights group Lambda, said in a statement...
Meanwhile, Tepperman-Gelfant said that Lambda is in negotiations with Kagan to add safeguards to the school’s nondiscrimination policies protecting transgender students...