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Timestamp: 2019-04-21 00:36:13+00:00

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SEATTLE (November 23, 2018) - The US Department of Justice (DOJ) today asked the US Supreme Court to review three preliminary federal district court rulings that have kept the Trump administration from implementing its discriminatory plan to prevent transgender people from serving in the US armed services. The three preliminary rulings include one out of the US District Court for the Western District of Washington in the lawsuit, brought by Lambda Legal and OutServe-SLDN and joined by the State of Washington, challenging the constitutionality of the proposed ban.
Lambda Legal and OutServe-SLDN filed the lawsuit, Karnoski v. Trump, in August 2017, on behalf of nine individual plaintiffs and three organizational plaintiffs: the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the Seattle-based Gender Justice League, and the American Military Partner Association (AMPA). The State of Washington later joined the lawsuit. The district court in December 2017, granted the plaintiffs motion for a preliminary injunction preventing implementation of the ban, which the DOJ chose not to challenge on appeal, and the court reaffirmed that preliminary ruling in April after the Trump administration released an implementation plan. The administration appealed that latter ruling to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, which heard oral argument on October 10, 2018. The 9th Circuit previously denied the DOJ's request to stay the preliminary injunction during the appeal, thereby allowing transgender people to continue serving, and the DOJ declined to ask the Supreme Court for a stay while the appeal proceeded.
In addition to Karnoski v. Trump, the administration also asked the Supreme Court to review the preliminary rulings in Stockman v. Trump and Doe v. Trump, lawsuits also challenging the ban [and] filed by the National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR) and GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders (GLAD). Doe v. Trump was filed in the US District Court for the District of Columbia that the DOJ appealed [sic] to the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. Stockman v. Trump was filed in the US District Court for the Central District of California and is also on appeal to the 9th Circuit.
Lambda Legal is a national organization committed to achieving full recognition of the civil rights of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgender people, and everyone living with HIV through impact litigation, education, and public policy work. For more information, visit www.lambdalegal.org.

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