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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

Payne-Elliott v. Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Indianapolis

Payne-Elliott sued the archdiocese for compelling Cathedral High School to fire him or lose its Catholic status because Payne-Elliott was...

Case Filed: 11/23/2021

Court: Court of Appeals of Indiana

  • Religious Exemptions
  • Indiana
Closed Case

Easter v. HHS

Lambda Legal and Americans United for Separation of Church and State, together with the law firm Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe...

Case Filed: 10/13/2021

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

Decision: Victory

  • Religious Exemptions
  • Youth in Out-of-Home Care
  • United States
Active Case

Rogers v. United States Department of Health and Human Services

Lambda Legal, the ACLU, ACLU of South Carolina, and South Carolina Equality Coalition are suing the U.S. Department of Health...

Case Filed: 05/30/2019

Court: United States District Court for the District of South Carolina, Greenville Division

  • Anti-LGBTQ+ Rulings, Laws and Amendments
  • Marriage, Relationships and Family Protections
  • Religious Exemptions
  • Youth in Out-of-Home Care
  • South Carolina
Active Case

County of Santa Clara v. HHS

Lambda Legal, Americans United for Separation of Church and State and the Center for Reproductive Rights filed a lawsuit challenging...

Case Filed: 05/28/2019

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

  • Anti-LGBTQ+ Rulings, Laws and Amendments
  • Health Care Fairness
  • Religious Exemptions
  • Transgender and Nonbinary Rights
  • California
Closed Case

Fulton v. City of Philadelphia

Lambda Legal filed friend-of-the-court briefs in the Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals and again in the U.S. Supreme Court...

Case Filed: 10/05/2018

Court: Supreme Court of the United States

  • Anti-LGBTQ+ Rulings, Laws and Amendments
  • Marriage, Relationships and Family Protections
  • Religious Exemptions
  • Youth in Out-of-Home Care
  • Pennsylvania
Closed Case

EEOC v. RG & GR Harris Funeral Homes

Lambda Legal filed an amicus brief in the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in support of Aimee Stephens, a transgender...

Case Filed: 06/04/2018

Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

  • Religious Exemptions
Active Case

Klein dba Sweetcakes by Melissa v. Oregon Bureau of Labor & Industry

Lambda Legal filed friend-of-the-court briefs on behalf of Rachel and Laurel Bowman-Cryer, a lesbian couple, urging the Oregon appellate courts...

Case Filed: 03/15/2018

Court: Oregon Court of Appeals, United States Supreme Court

  • Anti-LGBTQ+ Rulings, Laws and Amendments
  • Marriage, Relationships and Family Protections
  • Religious Exemptions
  • Oregon
Active Case

Marouf v. Becerra (Formerly Marouf v. Azar)

Lambda Legal filed a federal lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the U.S. Conference...

Case Filed: 02/08/2018

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

  • Anti-LGBTQ+ Rulings, Laws and Amendments
  • Marriage, Relationships and Family Protections
  • Religious Exemptions
  • Youth in Out-of-Home Care
  • Texas
  • Washington, D.C.
Closed Case

Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission

Lambda Legal filed friend-of-the-court briefs supporting Charlie Craig and David Mullins, a gay couple, urging the Colorado appellate courts and...

Case Filed: 12/03/2017

Court: Colorado Court of Appeals, Supreme Court of the United States

  • Anti-LGBTQ+ Rulings, Laws and Amendments
  • Policy
  • Marriage, Relationships and Family Protections
  • Religious Exemptions
  • Colorado
Closed Case

Trinity Lutheran Church v. Pauley

Lambda Legal filed an amicus brief in a case before the U.S. Supreme Court concerning whether Missouri can enforce a...

Case Filed: 04/19/2017

Court: Supreme Court of the United States

  • Anti-LGBTQ+ Rulings, Laws and Amendments
  • Religious Exemptions
  • Missouri
Active Case

Barber v. Bryant

Lambda Legal joined Barber v. Bryant, the federal challenge to HB 1523, Mississippi’s discriminatory anti-LGBT legislation, which was brought by...

Case Filed: 04/03/2017

Court:

  • Anti-LGBTQ+ Rulings, Laws and Amendments
  • Marriage, Relationships and Family Protections
  • Religious Exemptions
  • Mississippi
Active Case

Conforti v. St. Joseph’s Healthcare System

Lambda Legal filed a federal lawsuit against St. Joseph’s Healthcare in Paterson, New Jersey, after the hospital refused to allow...

Case Filed: 01/05/2017

Court: United States District Court for the District of New Jersey

  • Health Care Fairness
  • Religious Exemptions
  • Transgender and Nonbinary Rights
  • New Jersey
Closed Case

Oliver v. The Barbershop

Lambda Legal has brought this lawsuit to enforce California’s paramount interest in nondiscrimination and to make clear that freedom of...

Case Filed: 05/25/2016

Court: Superior Court of the State of California for the County of San Bernardino

  • Religious Exemptions
  • Transgender and Nonbinary Rights
  • California
Closed Case

Zubik v. Burwell

Lambda Legal filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the U.S. Supreme Court urging the Court to reject arguments made by religiously...

Case Filed: 02/24/2016

Court: United States Supreme Court

  • Health Care Fairness
  • Policy
  • Religious Exemptions
  • Transgender and Nonbinary Rights
Closed Case

Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores and Conestoga Wood Specialties Corp v. Burwell

Amicus briefs to multiple federal courts of appeal and then the U.S. Supreme Court arguing against granting religious exemptions to...

Case Filed: 02/03/2014

Court: United States Supreme Court

  • Health Care Fairness
  • Policy
  • Religious Exemptions