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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Saba v. Cuomo
Lambda Legal represents Sander Saba, a nonbinary transgender New York resident who is seeking an accurate New York driver’s license...
Case Filed: 07/28/2020
Court: United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
M.H.W. v. Cuomo
Lambda Legal filed a federal lawsuit challenging New York State’s policy categorically prohibiting transgender minors from correcting the sex designation...
Case Filed: 01/07/2020
Court: United States District Court for the Northern District of New York
Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc. v. United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
Lambda Legal filed a federal lawsuit to compel the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to release information...
Case Filed: 05/22/2019
Court: United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
Simonson v. Oswego County
Lambda Legal filed a lawsuit against Oswego County and the Oswego County Department of Social Services (DSS) on behalf of...
Case Filed: 11/30/2017
Court: U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York
Decision: Victory
Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc. v. U.S. Department of Education and U.S. Department of Justice
Lambda Legal filed a federal lawsuit to compel the U.S. Departments of Education and Justice to release information about their...
Case Filed: 08/23/2017
Court: U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
Bostock v. Clayton County, GA / Zarda v. Altitude Express / RG & GR Harris Funeral Homes Inc v. EEOC
On June 15, 2020, the Supreme Court issued a landmark decision approving the analysis Lambda Legal has been advancing for...
Case Filed: 06/26/2017
Court: United States Supreme Court
Decision: Landmark Case
Brooke S.B. v. Elizabeth C.C.
Lambda Legal represented Brooke S.B. in her effort to continue to parent the six-year-old son she and her former partner,...
Case Filed: 06/02/2016
Court:
Decision: Victory
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
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
People v. DeLee
Amicus brief filed with the New York Court of Appeals urging the reinstatement of the conviction of Dwight DeLee, found...
Case Filed: 10/07/2013
Court: New York Court of Appeals
Teevan v. County of Westchester, et al.
Case filed against Westchester County, N.Y., police for releasing sealed arrest records in public sex sting.
Case Filed: 12/31/2012
Court: U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York
In re Balducci
Advocacy letter urging a New York City-based landlord to add the wife of lesbian tenant to rent-stabilized apartment lease in...
Case Filed: 06/27/2012
Court:
Decision: Victory
People v. Plunkett
Case involving a man who bit a police officer and whose saliva was ruled a “dangerous instrument” because he has...
Case Filed: 04/24/2012
Court: New York Court of Appeals
In the Matter of Brian (a.k.a. Mariah) L.
(Amicus) Case arguing that Children’s Services must provide a transgender youth sex reassignment treatment if it is found medically necessary
Case Filed: 10/28/2011
Court: New York Supreme Court
Lewis v. New York State Department of Civil Service, et al.
Case arguing that New York’s state government follows the law by respecting out-of-state marriages of same-sex couples.
Case Filed: 10/28/2011
Court: York State Supreme Court, Albany County