Dianne Herman Ellis's Legal Cases (5)

Civil rights

Strickland v Day, 2016-TS-01504

Oct 21, 2016

OUTCOME: Favorable to my client Strickland

Issue of first impression on appeal. A child was born to a lesbian couple during the legal marriage of the couple. The birth mother was named as a parent on the birth certificate, but the other mothe ... r was not named as a legal parent. We believe that both mothers should be named as legal parents, just as a husband in the same position would be named as the legal father. Any denial based on the gender of the parent is blatant sex-based discrimination.

Child custody

Ethridge v Ethridge, 2016-CA-00785

May 23, 2016

OUTCOME: Pending

Father's rights case. Father's are equally entitled to visitation and custody.

Constitutional

Campaign for Southern Equality et al v. Mississippi Department of Human Services et al

Aug 12, 2015

OUTCOME: The federal court declared the ban against same sex couples adopting to be unconstitutional and granted preliminary injunction

Federal civil rights case filed in the Southern District of Mississippi seeking declaratory judgment that the ban on same sex adoptions in Mississippi is unconstitutional. "The majority of the Unite ... d States Supreme Court dictates the law of the land, and lower courts are bound to follow it. In this case, that means that section 93-17-3(5) violates the Equal Protection Clause of the United States Constitution."

Family

Campaign for Southern Equality, et. al. v Bryant, et. al.

Nov 12, 2014

OUTCOME: Ban found unconstitutional in Federal Court, State appealed to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, with opinion upheld and remanded to District Court. Marriage equality is now the law of the land in Mississippi.

Case brought challenging the same sex marriage ban in Mississippi.

Civil rights

MB v Rankin County School District, et. al.

Apr 24, 2013

OUTCOME: The Rankin County School District admitted their conduct and entered into an agreed order requiring them to abstain from any such further conduct.

Case brought challenging the Rankin County School District's violations of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. Rankin County schools violated the Consent Decree and were fined bas ... ed on our petition for contempt. http://humanistlegalcenter.org/main/legal-center-files-suit-over-christian-assemblies-at-rankin-county-schools/

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