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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Keeton v. Anderson-Wiley
Case in which a counseling student sues her school for requiring a remediation plan that included greater exposure to LGBT...
Case Filed: 12/19/2011
Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Cervelli v. Aloha Bed & Breakfast
Case representing a lesbian couple denied accommodation at a Hawai’i commercial business establishment.
Case Filed: 12/19/2011
Court: Intermediate Court of Appeals, State of Hawai`i
Selby and Ballard v. Baltimore County
Case arguing that Baltimore County respect the out-of-state marriage of county employees and provide spousal benefits to married same-sex couples.
Case Filed: 12/15/2011
Court:
Boswell v. Boswell
Case seeking visitation rights for a gay father
Case Filed: 11/01/2011
Court: Maryland Court of Appeals
In re Judge Connie Glenn Wilkerson
Complaint arguing that an antigay judge in Mississippi violated the state’s Code of Judicial Conduct
Case Filed: 10/28/2011
Court: Mississippi Supreme Court
Matter of Matthew Cusick and Cirque du Soleil
Groundbreaking case arguing against Cirque du Soleil’s decision to fire an employee because of his HIV status
Case Filed: 10/28/2011
Court:
Decision: Landmark Case
Romer v. Evans
Landmark case that struck down a Colorado voter initiative that would have stripped lesbians and gay men of civil rights...
Case Filed: 10/28/2011
Court: U.S. Supreme Court
Decision: Landmark Case
Patino v. Birken Manufacturing Co.
Case arguing that Birken Manufacturing failed to protect one of its employees from severe antigay harassment in the workplace.
Case Filed: 10/28/2011
Court: Connecticut Superior Court for the Judicial District of Hartford
Decision: Victory
CLS v. Martinez
Amicus brief in support of University of California Hastings Law School policy requiring publicly funded student groups to accept “all...
Case Filed: 10/28/2011
Court: US Supreme Court
Decision: Victory
Doe v. Jindal
Amicus brief filed in support of case challenging the Crime Against Nature by Solicitation (“CANS”) law.
Case Filed: 10/28/2011
Court:
N.B. v. A.K.
Case seeking regular visitation rights for a lesbian mother and the child she and her former partner co-parented in California.
Case Filed: 10/28/2011
Court: Alabama Supreme Court
In re Marriage Cases
Case seeking the right for same-sex couples to marry in California
Case Filed: 10/28/2011
Court: California Supreme Court
Decision: Landmark Case
Mitchell v. Bremen Community High School District No. 228 and Gleason, et al.
Case arguing against the termination of a school superintendent because he is gay
Case Filed: 10/28/2011
Court:
Rowell v. Rowell
Case arguing against a custody arrangement that is contingent on the children being blocked from seeing their HIV positive aunt
Case Filed: 10/28/2011
Court: Chancery Court of Jackson County
Decision: Victory
Stern v. Cosby, et al.
Case involving a claim, among others, that statements describing plaintiff as gay were defamatory per se, entitling him to presumed...
Case Filed: 10/28/2011
Court: United States District Court, Southern District of New York