C-528/13, CJEU, 29/04/2015

Technical requirements relating to blood and blood components, blood donation — Eligibility criteria for blood donors, persons whose sexual behaviour puts them at a high risk of acquiring severe infectious diseases that can be transmitted by blood — Man who has had sexual relations with another man

Judge Rapporteur: M. Safjan

Identoba and Others v. Georgia, ECtHR, 73235/12, 12/05/2015
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2015

Article 3 (Positive obligations) and Article 14 (Discrimination) - State’s failure to protect demonstrators from homophobic violence and to launch effective investigation - State’s failure to protect demonstrators from homophobic violence and to launch effective investigation

Dissenting / Concurring: Wojtyczek

C‑148/13, C‑149/13 and C‑150/13, CJEU, 02/12/2014

Minimum standards for granting refugee status or subsidiary protection status — Fear of persecution on grounds of sexual orientation — Differences between, on the one hand, the limitations that apply to the verification of statements and documentary or other evidence as regards the declared sexual orientation of an applicant for asylum and, on the other hand, those that apply to the verification of those elements as regards other grounds for persecution

Judge Rapporteur: L. Bay Larsen

Hämäläinen v. Finland, ECtHR, 37359/09, 16/07/2014 [GC]
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2014

Article 8 (Positive obligations/Respect for family life/Respect for private life) - Refusal to give applicant female identity number following sex change unless marriage was transformed into a civil partnership

Dissenting / Concurring: Ziemele / Sajó, Keller and Lemmens

C‑199/12, C‑200/12 and C‑201/12, CJEU, 07/12/2013

Minimum standards relating to the conditions for granting refugee status or subsidiary protection status – Well-founded fear of being persecuted on account of membership of a particular social group – Acts sufficiently serious to justify such a fear, legislation criminalising homosexual acts

Judge Rapporteur: L. Bay Larsen

X and Others v. Austria, ECtHR, 19010/07, 19/2/2013 [GC]
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2013

Impossibility of second-parent adoption in a same-sex couple - Government's failure to provide convincing reasons for the exclusion second-parent adoption in a same-sex couple, while allowing that possibility in an unmarried different-sex couple, deemed necessary for the protection of the family in the traditional sense or for the protection of the interests of the child, amounts to discrimination

Dissenting / Concurring: Josep Casadevall, Ineta Ziemele, Anatoly Kovler, Danutė Jočienė, Ján Šikuta, Vincent A. De Gaetano, Linos-Alexandre Sicilianos / Dean Spielmann