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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Facing Foster Care in Alaska v. HHS
Plaintiffs Facing Foster Care in Alaska (FFCA), Family Equality, True Colors United, Inc., and Services & Advocacy for GLBT Elders...
Case Filed: 02/10/2021
Court: The United States District Court for the District of Columbia
Colosimo v. Berryhill
Lambda Legal filed a motion on behalf of a 75-year-old gay man arguing that the Social Security Administration’s denial of...
Case Filed: 01/16/2019
Court: U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina
Gonzales v. Berryhill
Lambda Legal filed a motion on behalf of a 63-year-old gay man arguing that the Social Security Administration’s denial of...
Case Filed: 12/12/2018
Court: U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico
Ely v. Saul (formerly Ely v. Berryhill)
A lawsuit against the U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA) on behalf of a 65-year-old gay man seeking spousal survivor’s benefits...
Case Filed: 11/20/2018
Court: U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona
Decision: Landmark Case
Zawadski v. Brewer Funeral Services
Lambda Legal is suing a Picayune, MS, funeral home for denying services for Robert Huskey after finding out he was...
Case Filed: 05/01/2017
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Birchfield v. Armstrong
After more than 40 years together, Hal Birchfield and James Merrick Smith traveled to New York in October 2012 and...
Case Filed: 08/15/2016
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Wetzel v. Glen St. Andrew Living Community
In a groundbreaking decision, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a landlord may be held liable under the...
Case Filed: 07/26/2016
Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Lawrence v. Office of Personnel Management
Case on behalf of a transgender man discriminated against by his federal employer because it denied health care coverage.
Case Filed: 09/15/2015
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Williams v. Colvin
Lambda Legal filed a federal lawsuit against the Commissioner of the Social Security Administration (SSA) on behalf of Dave Williams,...
Case Filed: 11/06/2014
Court: United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
Murphy v. Colvin
Lambda Legal filed suit against the Social Security Administration (SSA) on behalf of Kathy Murphy, a Texas widow denied spousal...
Case Filed: 10/28/2014
Court: United States District Court for the District of Columbia
Weinstein and Calvani v. Weinreb Management LLC, et al.
Complaint urging a New York City-based landlord to add the wife of lesbian tenant to rent-stabilized apartment lease in accordance...
Case Filed: 12/04/2013
Court: New York Supreme Court
Decision: Victory
Matter of the Estate of Ranftle v. Leiby
Case defending a man’s right to the estate of his deceased spouse with New York’s long-standing law respecting out-of-state marriages...
Case Filed: 10/28/2011
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Franke v. Parkstone Living Center, Inc.
Case brought against assisted living facility on behalf of retiree and his daughter, after the facility evicted the retiree because...
Case Filed: 05/12/2009
Court: U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Arkansas