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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

City of Grants Pass, Oregon v. Gloria Johnson, et al., on Behalf of Themselves and All Other Similarly Situated 

Lambda Legal filed an amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court in Grants Pass v. Johnson, a case addressing whether...

Case Filed: 04/19/2024

Court: Supreme Court of the United States

  • Youth in Out-of-Home Care
  • Criminal Legal System and Police Misconduct
  • United States
  • Oregon
Active Case

Roe v. Precythe, et. al.

Lambda Legal, the MacArthur Justice Center and law firm Shook, Hardy & Bacon sued the Missouri Department of Corrections (“MODOC”)...

Case Filed: 06/27/2023

Court: United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri

  • Criminal Legal System and Police Misconduct
  • HIV
  • Missouri
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John Doe v. Delaware County, et al.

On June 24, 2022, Lambda Legal, AIDS Law Project of Pennsylvania, and attorney Scott A. Schoettes, Esq. filed an amended...

Case Filed: 12/05/2022

Court: Unites States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

  • Criminal Legal System and Police Misconduct
  • HIV
  • Delaware
Active Case

Chandler v. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation

Lambda Legal, the ACLU of Southern California, the Transgender Law Center, and O’Melveny & Myers LLP filed a request to...

Case Filed: 05/09/2022

Court: U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California

  • Criminal Legal System and Police Misconduct
  • Transgender and Nonbinary Rights
  • California
Active Case

Rios v. Redding

Lambda Legal and the University of Denver School of Law, Civil Rights Clinic filed a friend-of-the-court brief in support of...

Case Filed: 06/10/2021

Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit

  • Criminal Legal System and Police Misconduct
  • Transgender and Nonbinary Rights
  • Colorado
Closed Case

Keohane v. Florida Department of Corrections, Secretary

Lambda Legal and the Center for Constitutional Rights filed a friend-of-the-court brief in support of Reiyn Keohane urging the Eleventh...

Case Filed: 11/18/2020

Court: United States Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit

  • Criminal Legal System and Police Misconduct
  • Transgender and Nonbinary Rights
  • Florida
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Santiago v. Gage, et al.

Lambda Legal filed a friend-of-the-court brief in support of Ashley Moon Raelynn urging the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to...

Case Filed: 11/18/2020

Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

  • Criminal Legal System and Police Misconduct
  • Transgender and Nonbinary Rights
  • Washington
Active Case

Gladney v. United States

Lambda Legal, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), and the law firm Boies, Schiller, Flexner LLP filed a friend-of-the-court brief...

Case Filed: 10/21/2020

Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

  • Criminal Legal System and Police Misconduct
  • Transgender and Nonbinary Rights
  • Arizona
Closed Case

Edmo v. Idaho Department of Correction, et al.

Lambda Legal, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), and the law firm WilmerHale filed a friend-of-the-court brief in support of...

Case Filed: 04/11/2019

Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

  • Criminal Legal System and Police Misconduct
  • Transgender and Nonbinary Rights
  • Idaho
Active Case

Lucas v. Chalk

Lambda Legal, Just Detention International (JDI), and the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) filed a friend-of-the-court brief on behalf of...

Case Filed: 01/14/2019

Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

  • Anti-LGBTQ+ Rulings, Laws and Amendments
  • Criminal Legal System and Police Misconduct
  • Fair Courts
  • Tennessee
Active Case

Southern Poverty Law Center and Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc. v. United States Department of Justice and Federal Bureau of Prisons

Lambda Legal and the Southern Poverty Law Center filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with the Department of...

Case Filed: 11/19/2018

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

  • Criminal Legal System and Police Misconduct
  • Transgender and Nonbinary Rights
Active Case

Dorn v. Michigan Department of Corrections, et al.

On November 12, 2018, Lambda Legal and Michigan Protection & Advocacy Service announced the successful settlement of a 2015 lawsuit...

Case Filed: 10/31/2018

Court: Western District of Michigan

  • Criminal Legal System and Police Misconduct
  • HIV
  • Michigan
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Rhines v. Young

Lambda Legal, the American Civil Liberties Union, the American Civil Liberties Union of South Dakota, GLBTQ Advocates & Defenders, the...

Case Filed: 08/02/2018

Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit

  • Anti-LGBTQ+ Rulings, Laws and Amendments
  • Criminal Legal System and Police Misconduct
  • Fair Courts
  • South Dakota
Active Case

Hicklin v. Precythe (formerly Hicklin v. Lombardi)

Lambda Legal filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of Jessica Hicklin, a 37-year-old transgender woman incarcerated at the Potosi Correctional Center, a...

Case Filed: 08/22/2016

Court: United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri

  • Criminal Legal System and Police Misconduct
  • Transgender and Nonbinary Rights
  • Missouri
Closed Case

Hamm v. City of New York et al

Federal lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on behalf of Thomas Hamm against...

Case Filed: 10/22/2015

Court: United States District Court for the Southern District of New York

  • Criminal Legal System and Police Misconduct
  • New York