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Lambda Legal’s Case Work

For five decades and counting, Lambda Legal has proudly served as attorneys for the LGBTQ+ community and people living with HIV. Find out what’s on our docket right now—and go in depth on each of our current cases below.

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Active Case

Jackson-Edney v. Labrador 

Lambda Legal, the ACLU, the ACLU of Idaho, Munger Tolles & Olson LLP, and Alturas Law Group, PLLC  filed a federal lawsuit in the U.S. District...

Case Filed: 04/30/2026

Court: U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho

  • Trans Rights
  • Idaho
  • Western Regional Office, Los Angeles
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De la Fuente Díaz v. González Colón

In 2025, Lambda Legal joined the appeal on behalf of six nonbinary plaintiffs seeking to uphold the decision by the...

Case Filed: 10/01/2025

Court: U.S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico

  • Trans Rights
  • Puerto Rico
  • National Headquarters, New York
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Jones v. Critchfield

Lambda Legal, Munger Tolles & Olson LLP, and Alturas Law Group, PLLC, have filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of...

Case Filed: 08/01/2025

Court: U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho

  • Trans Rights
  • Students' Rights
  • Idaho
  • Western Regional Office, Los Angeles
Active Case

GLMA v. National Institutes of Health

Lambda Legal, alongside law firms Crowell & Moring LLP and Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP, filed a federal lawsuit against...

Case Filed: 05/20/2025

Court: U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

  • HIV
  • Trans Rights
  • Racial Justice
  • United States
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Schlacter et. al. v. U.S. Department of State et. al.

Lambda Legal filed this case in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland. We are challenging a Trump...

Case Filed: 04/25/2025

Court: U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

  • Trans Rights
  • Identity Documents
  • United States
Active Case

Shilling v. United States

Lambda Legal, the Human Rights Campaign Foundation, and Perkins Coie filed this case in the U.S. District Court for the...

Case Filed: 02/06/2025

Court: U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

  • Trans Rights
  • Employment
  • Military
  • United States
Active Case

PFLAG v. Trump

Lambda Legal, the American Civil Liberties Union, and the ACLU of Maryland, joined by pro-bono co-counsel Hogan Lovells and Jenner...

Case Filed: 02/04/2025

Court: U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

  • Health Care
  • Trans Rights
  • Youth
  • United States
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PFLAG v. Office of the Attorney General of Texas

On February 9, PFLAG National—which has eighteen chapters in Texas—received civil demands from the Attorney General’s Office to turn over...

Case Filed: 02/29/2024

Court: District Court of Travis County, Texas

  • Trans Rights
  • Youth
  • Texas
  • South Central Regional Office, Dallas
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Soe v. Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners

Lambda Legal, the Harvard Law School Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation (CHLPI) and Louisiana co-counsel filed this case in Orleans Civil District Court before it was transferred to the 19th Judicial...

Case Filed: 01/08/2024

Court: 19th Judicial District Court

  • Health Care
  • Trans Rights
  • Youth
  • Louisiana
  • South Central Regional Office, Dallas
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Voe v. Mansfield

Lambda Legal and the National Health Law Program (NHeLP) sued the State of North Carolina to block implementation of a...

Case Filed: 10/11/2023

Court: District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina

  • Trans Rights
  • Health Care
  • Students' Rights
  • Youth
  • North Carolina
  • Southern Regional Office, Atlanta
Active Case

E.N. v. Kehoe (Formerly Noe, et al. v. Parson, et al.)

A lawsuit to block the implementation of SB 49 was filed in Cole County Circuit Court, which would prevent transgender...

Case Filed: 07/25/2023

Court: Circuit Court of Cole County State of Missouri

  • Trans Rights
  • Health Care
  • Students' Rights
  • Missouri
  • Midwest Regional Office, Chicago
Active Case

Loe, et al. v. Texas, et al.

Lambda Legal, the ACLU, the ACLU of Texas, and the Transgender Law Center, along with the law firms Scott, Douglass...

Case Filed: 07/13/2023

Court: Supreme Court of Texas

  • Trans Rights
  • Health Care
  • Texas
  • South Central Regional Office, Dallas
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Sexuality and Gender Alliance v. Critchfield (Formerly Roe, et al. v. Critchfield, et al.) 

Lambda Legal, Munger Tolles & Olson LLP, and Alturas Law Group, PLLC filed a federal lawsuit against the Idaho State...

Case Filed: 07/07/2023

Court: United States District Court for the District of Idaho

  • Trans Rights
  • Students' Rights
  • Idaho
  • Western Regional Office, Los Angeles
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A.B. v. Premera Blue Cross

Lambda Legal, Sirianni Youtz Spoonemore Hamburger PLLC, and QLaw Foundation of Washington filed a federal class action lawsuit on behalf...

Case Filed: 06/27/2023

Court: U.S District Court for the Western District of Washington

  • Health Care
  • Trans Rights
  • Washington
  • Western Regional Office, Los Angeles
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Cross v. Montana (Formerly van Garderen v. Montana)

In a lawsuit filed by Lambda Legal, the American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Montana, and Perkins Coie, two...

Case Filed: 05/09/2023

Court: Fourth Judicial District Court Missoula County

  • Trans Rights
  • Health Care
  • Youth
  • Montana
  • Western Regional Office, Los Angeles