(2017-12-07), Legal analysis finds Arkansas law that bars protection of LGBTQ people unconstitutional, State & Local Health Law Weekly, 6, ISSN: 1551-5591, BUTTER® ID: 014779038

By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at State & Local Health Law Weekly -- An original legal analysis by NYU College of Global Public Health finds an Arkansas law that prohibits local governments from enacting civil rights protections for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer (LGBTQ) individuals to be unconstitutional.

The article, published in the December issue of the American Journal of Public Health, provides information in support of evidence-based policymaking in order to prevent the passage of similar laws in other states.

LGBTQ individuals have historically been discriminated against in a variety of ways; this puts them at an increased risk for disparate health outcomes when they reside in states that fail to extend equal protections to them or that actively deprive equal rights to them.

“In the wake of the Supreme Court’s 2015 case holding that the Constitution protects the right of …

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