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Robert, left, and Leslie Raymond dance in front of the Soonercon booth May 4, 2019, during the Norman Pride Festival on Campus Corner. The Norman City Council passed a ban on conversion therapy this week. Kyle Phillips / The Transcript
After the Norman City Council, the LGBTQ community and their advocates celebrated a ban on conversion therapy passed this week, questions remain about how to enforce the ban and whether the city has stepped beyond its purview.
The Transcript obtained more information to explore how courts have viewed bans in other states and the enforcement process the city will follow.
What exactly is conversion therapy, for the purpose of the ban?
An attorney for the National Apartment Association told the appeals court that landlords’ inability to give delinquent tenants the boot during the pandemic is causing them irreparable harm.
Signs reading “No Job No Rent” hang from the windows of an apartment building in Washington last year. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
ATLANTA (CN) A national landlord group brought its case challenging a federal directive halting residential evictions to the 11
th Circuit on Friday, arguing that the order has forced landlords to give unlimited free housing to delinquent tenants without proper legal recourse.
Attorney Caleb Kruckenberg of the New Civil Liberties Alliance told a three-judge panel of the Atlanta-based appeals court that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s nationwide eviction moratorium has left his clients, the National Apartment Association and landlords in four states, without “any meaningful remedy” to evict tenants who fail to pay rent.
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WASHINGTON – Nearly 40% of judges President Donald Trump appointed to federal appeals courts have a history of hostility toward LGBTQ rights, according to a new report by the LGBT advocacy group Lambda Legal.
The report presents a sobering image for civil rights advocates of Trump s lasting impact on the federal judiciary – one they say threatens to roll back progress made in advancing the rights of the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community. Our analysis was . about calling out the danger to the rule of law, the danger to the integrity and credibility of the judiciary to be putting forth nominees who fundamentally start from a perspective of LGBTQ people as less than, said Sharon McGowan, legal director for Lambda Legal.
The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta last month ruled that ordinances banning conversion therapy violated the First Amendment.
The governments and groups have filed requests to submit briefs in support of Palm Beach County and Boca Raton, which sought a rehearing after a ruling by a federal appeals court panel.
Cities, counties and groups from Florida and other parts of the country are trying to help sway a federal appeals court to reconsider a potentially far-reaching decision that blocked bans on the controversial practice known as “conversion therapy.”
The local governments and groups have filed requests during the past week to submit briefs in support of Palm Beach County and the city of Boca Raton, which sought a rehearing after a panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals last month ruled that ordinances banning conversion therapy violated the First Amendment.