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handle is hein.comprint/cmpmtdaabca0001 and id is 1 raw text is: School of Law T w i m Williams Institute On Sex Oaati- April 19, 2019 The Honorable Suzanne Bonamici Chair, Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Human Services Committee on Education and Labor U.S. House of Representatives The Honorable James Comer Ranking Member, Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Human Services Committee on Education and Labor U.S. House of Representatives CC: The Honorable Bobby Scott Chair, Committee on Education and Labor U.S. House of Representatives Dear Chair Bonamici, Ranking Member Comer, and Members: Thank you for the opportunity to submit written testimony for the legislative record of H.R. 5, the Equality Act. We are writing in our capacity as scholars of the Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law. Founded in 2001, the Williams Institute is dedicated to conducting rigorous, independent research on sexual orientation and gender identity law and public policy. Experts at the Williams Institute have published hundreds of public policy studies and law review articles that have greatly expanded our knowledge about the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) population in the United States; filed amicus briefs in many court cases involving LGBT rights, which have been cited by the U.S. Supreme Court and other courts; provided expert testimony at legislative hearings and had our research findings cited in legislation and legislative analyses; been widely cited in the national media; and provided educational programs for thousands of judges, legislators, lawyers, and members of the public. The Williams Institute is uniquely positioned as an interdisciplinary research institute of legal and social science scholars who conduct high-quality research in order to improve policymaking and other government functions. Based on this expertise, in 2009 we submitted a comprehensive report to Congress on employment discrimination against LGBT people as part of the legislative record of H.R. 3017, the Employment Non-Discrimination Act of 2009. This report of over 1,500 pages analyzed the Supreme Court's treatment of the sovereign immunity doctrine and provided a comprehensive review of relevant case law, administrative complaints, surveys, laws and policies, and other research that justices of the Supreme Court have considered when applying that doctrine. The report was the result of research provided by ten different law firms and the contributions of scholars from a number of academic disciplines, including history, political science, economics, sociology, and demography. The research resulted in a set of fifty reports, one for each of the fifty states, plus a number of additional studies

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