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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

The American Academy of HIV Medicine et al. v. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services et al. 

Lambda Legal and co-counsel filed a federal lawsuit challenging new funding restrictions issued by the U.S. Department of Health and...

Case Filed: 06/10/2026

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

  • HIV
  • Trans Rights
  • Health Care
  • United States
Active Case

Coe, et. al. v. Blanche, et. al.

Lambda Legal, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), and the New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU) filed a federal class...

Case Filed: 06/02/2026

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

  • Trans Rights
  • Health Care
  • United States
  • New York
Active Case

Tucker, et al.  v. Utah Department of Corrections, et al.

Lambda Legal, alongside the ACLU of Utah Foundation and private law firms, filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of five...

Case Filed: 01/16/2026

Court: United States District Court for the District of Utah

  • Criminal Legal System
  • Trans Rights
  • Health Care
  • Utah
  • Western Regional Office, Los Angeles
Active Case

GLMA v. National Institutes of Health

Lambda Legal, Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP, and Crowell & Moring LLP filed a federal lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District...

Case Filed: 05/20/2025

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

  • HIV
  • Trans Rights
  • Racial Justice
  • Health Care
  • United States
Active Case

San Francisco AIDS Foundation v. Trump

Multiple LGBTQ, Health, and HIV organizations sued the Trump Administration represented by Lambda Legal challenging three executive orders that together...

Case Filed: 02/20/2025

Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

  • Health Care
  • HIV
  • Racial Justice
  • Trans Rights
  • United States
Active Case

PFLAG v. Trump

Lambda Legal, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), and the ACLU of Maryland, joined by pro-bono co-counsel Hogan Lovells and Jenner...

Case Filed: 02/04/2025

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

  • Health Care
  • Trans Rights
  • Youth
  • United States
Active Case

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

  • Health Care
  • Trans Rights
  • Youth
  • Louisiana
  • South Central Regional Office, Dallas
Active Case

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

  • Trans Rights
  • Health Care
  • Students' Rights
  • Youth
  • North Carolina
  • Southern Regional Office, Atlanta
Active Case

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

  • Trans Rights
  • Health Care
  • Students' Rights
  • Missouri
  • Midwest Regional Office, Chicago
Active Case

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

  • Trans Rights
  • Health Care
  • Texas
  • South Central Regional Office, Dallas
Active Case

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

  • Health Care
  • Trans Rights
  • Washington
  • Western Regional Office, Los Angeles
Active Case

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

  • Trans Rights
  • Health Care
  • Youth
  • Montana
  • Western Regional Office, Los Angeles
Active Case

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

  • Trans Rights
  • Health Care
  • Students' Rights
  • Oklahoma
  • South Central Regional Office, Dallas
Closed Case

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

  • Trans Rights
  • Health Care
  • Missouri
  • Midwest Regional Office, Chicago
Closed Case

L.W. et al v. Skrmetti et al 

Lambda Legal, the American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Tennessee, and Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP sued...

Case Filed: 04/21/2023

Court: U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee

  • Trans Rights
  • Youth
  • Health Care
  • Tennessee