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May 18, 2016, 9:11 PM UTC

Ted Olson Tapped in Legal Battle Against LGBT Law in North Carolina

Lenore Adkins
Bloomberg Law

Supreme Court litigator Ted Olson has joined the legal battle to protect LGBT rights in the face of North Carolina’s controversial law that forces transgender people to use bathrooms that correspond with the gender listed on their birth certificates.

In an announcement on Wednesday, civil rights organization Human Rights Campaign said it retained Olson to write an amicus brief on behalf of businesses backing the Justice Department’s lawsuit against the law, House Bill 2.

The Justice Department’s lawsuit, filed last week, alleges the law violates federal civil rights law, including the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title IX of the Education Amendments Act ...

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