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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The American Academy of HIV Medicine et al. v. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services et al.
HHS issued funding restrictions that prohibit the use of Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program funds for gender-affirming care for transgender people living with HIV....
Case Filed: 06/10/2026
Court: U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts
Coe, et. al. v. Blanche, et. al.
The Trump Administration has attempted to gain access to the health information of transgender youth who received gender-affirming medical care...
Case Filed: 06/02/2026
Court: U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
Tucker, et al. v. Utah Department of Corrections, et al.
The Utah Department of Corrections has denied medically necessary care to five incarcerated transgender people. Lambda Legal is challenging the...
Case Filed: 01/16/2026
Court: United States District Court for the District of Utah
GLMA v. National Institutes of Health
The NIH is dismantling decades of LGBTQI+ health research. Lambda Legal is fighting to restore the funding and the science....
Case Filed: 05/20/2025
Court: U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland
Wagoner v. Winkelman, Commissioner, Alaska Department of Corrections
The Alaska Department of Corrections denied medically necessary care for an incarcerated transgender woman. Lambda Legal joined her case to...
Case Filed: 05/01/2025
Court: Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
San Francisco AIDS Foundation v. Trump
Three Trump executive orders are defunding life-saving health services and erasing transgender people from public life. Lambda Legal is in...
Case Filed: 02/20/2025
Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
PFLAG v. Trump
The Trump Administration is cutting off health care for transgender youth nationwide. Lambda Legal is in court to keep doctors...
Case Filed: 02/04/2025
Court: U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland
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
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
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
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
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
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
Poe et.al. v. Drummond et.al.
In a lawsuit filed by Lambda Legal, the American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Oklahoma, and the law firm...
Case Filed: 05/02/2023
Court: U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma
Southampton Community Healthcare v. Bailey
Lambda Legal, the American Civil Liberties Union of Missouri (ACLU-MO) and Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP filed a petition seeking...
Case Filed: 04/24/2023
Court: St. Louis County Court