Sentence examples for overturn discrimination from inspiring English sources

Featherstone's announcement is clearly an attempt to thwart the Equal Love legal case in the European court of human rights, where four gay couples and four heterosexual couples are seeking to overturn discrimination in civil marriage and civil partnership law.

Immediately after the court issued its rulings on Wednesday, Baldwin put out a statement saying it "made a strong statement for equality and freedom, overturning discrimination against gay and lesbian American citizens simply because of who they love".

When Wallace's conviction was also overturned on discrimination grounds in 2013, the judge in his case ordered his release, in view of the fact that Wallace was dying of liver cancer and had only days to live.

The bill also would overturn non-discrimination ordinances passed by cities like Austin and San Antonio to make public bathrooms accessible to transgender people.

The organization's anti-choice and anti-LGBT stances, including its efforts to overturn state laws banning discrimination against LGBT people, are widely documented, including the fact that ADF has backed efforts to criminalize homosexuality abroad.

The Supreme Court rules in favor of a white firefighter in a "reverse discrimination" case, overturning a decision made by Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayer.

By Adam Rose June 29, 2009 The Supreme Court rules in favor of a white firefighter in a "reverse discrimination" case, overturning a decision made by Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayer.

He jibed that Clinton might pick Trump as a running mate because they are both New York liberals who agreed on 13 listed policy issues, including that "grown men should use the little girl's restroom", a reference to the controversial HB2 measure recently passed in North Carolina, which overturns local laws banning discrimination against transgender individuals.

Specifically, he went on, "They rewrote the law so that women could be paid less than men," referring to the 2007 Lilly Ledbetter v. Goodyear decision crippling workplace discrimination guarantees (overturned with a February 2009 bill that was the first that incoming President Obama signed into law).

The state's first weddings were set to happen in the same county where, 38 years ago, Bryant successfully campaigned to overturn a Dade County ordinance banning discrimination against gay people.

President Bush could, for example, sign an order overturning the Clinton directive prohibiting discrimination against homosexuals in federal employment and security clearances.