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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

The American Academy of HIV Medicine et al. v. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services et al. 

Lambda Legal and co-counsel filed a federal lawsuit challenging new funding restrictions issued by the U.S. Department of Health and...

Case Filed: 06/10/2026

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

  • HIV
  • Trans Rights
  • Health Care
  • United States
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Coe, et. al. v. Blanche, et. al.

Lambda Legal, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), and the New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU) filed a federal class...

Case Filed: 06/02/2026

Court: U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

  • Trans Rights
  • Health Care
  • United States
  • New York
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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

Lambda Legal and co-counsel Johanna Emmanuelli Huertas represent six nonbinary people born in Puerto Rico on appeal in a challenge to 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, filed a federal lawsuit in the U.S. District...

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, Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP, and Crowell & Moring LLP filed a federal lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District...

Case Filed: 05/20/2025

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

  • HIV
  • Trans Rights
  • Racial Justice
  • Health Care
  • United States
Active Case

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

San Francisco AIDS Foundation v. Trump

Multiple LGBTQ, Health, and HIV organizations sued the Trump Administration represented by Lambda Legal challenging three executive orders that together...

Case Filed: 02/20/2025

Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

  • Health Care
  • HIV
  • Racial Justice
  • Trans Rights
  • 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 (ACLU), 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
Active Case

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
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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
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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