GLAD, Lambda Legal File Brief Defending University Non-Discrim Policy
Lambda Legal and Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders (GLAD) filed a friend-of-the-court brief today with the U.S. Supreme Court in support of the University of California Hastings School of Law in a case brought by the Christian Legal Society (CLS) challenging the school’s non-discrimination policy. The law school’s policy requires student organizations supported by the school to agree to accept “all comers” and not to discriminate against students based on their status or beliefs. It does not prohibit student groups from excluding whomever they want, but merely limits school support to those groups that are open to all students. The National Center for Lesbian Rights and Lambda Legal Board co-chair Paul Smith of Jenner & Block represent Hastings’ gay student group, as an intervenor in the case.
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