Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders

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Cases: Maine

Pulsifer v. Portland

Victory • 2004

GLAD represented the City of Portland, Maine against an attack on the city’s domestic partnership registry by ten-taxpayers, along with two anti-gay organizations, the Center for Marriage Law and the Alliance Defense Fund Law Center,… Read More

C.E.W. v. D.E.W.

Victory • 2004

GLAD, along with Maine co-counsel, won the right to seek full parental rights and responsibilities for a non-biological lesbian mother in Maine whose former partner, the child’s biological mother, was seeking to terminate any legal… Read More

Guardianship of I.H.

Victory • 2003

GLAD represented a committed lesbian couple from Kennebec County who jointly decided to have children together. They took all legal steps available to them to protect their relationship with each other and their son, executing… Read More

Guardianship of I.H.

Victory • 2003

Lambert v. MetLife Insurance Company

Victory • 1999

GLAD won the restoration of disability insurance benefits for a Portland man suffering from disabling fatigue where the insurer sought to rely on mere stabilization from new medications to terminate benefits

Crandall v. Boston Concession Group

Victory • 1999

GLAD won a ruling that Massachusetts non-discrimination law applies equally to every employee of Massachusetts companies, even if the employee works out-of-state. GLAD represented two women from Maine who worked in Maine and were essentially… Read More

In re D.G.

Victory • 1999

Where a southern Maine school sought to “solve” the two-year harassment of a student by graduating him a year early, GLAD successfully turned the focus back to a proper education and an end to the… Read More

Doe v. Maine Correctional Center

Victory • 1999

GLAD succeeded in obtaining proper medical care and medications for an HIV-positive prisoner denied even access to a doctor knowledgeable about HIV.

Bragdon v. Abbott

Victory • 1998

In its first case addressing HIV, the United States Supreme Court ruled 5-4 in Bragdon v. Abbott that the federal Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) prohibits discrimination against people living with HIV, whether or not… Read More

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