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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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Closed Case

Buntemeyer v. Iowa Dept. of Public Health

Lambda Legal case in which a legally married same-sex couple in Iowa gave birth to a stillborn baby and was...

Case Filed: 02/08/2012

Court:

Decision: Victory

  • Family Protections
  • Iowa
Closed Case

Dept. of HHS v. Florida

U.S. Supreme Court case challenging the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act, a law that greatly expands access to health...

Case Filed: 01/13/2012

Court: U.S. Supreme Court

  • Health Care
  • HIV
Closed Case

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

  • Religious Exemptions
  • Georgia
Active Case

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

  • Anti-LGBT Policies
  • Religious Exemptions
  • Hawaii
Closed Case

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:

  • Employment
  • Criminal Legal System
  • Family Protections
  • Maryland
Closed Case

Boswell v. Boswell

Case seeking visitation rights for a gay father

Case Filed: 11/01/2011

Court: Maryland Court of Appeals

  • Maryland
Closed Case

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

  • Fair Courts
  • Mississippi
Landmark Case

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

  • Employment
  • HIV
  • Nevada
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

  • Anti-LGBT Policies
  • Colorado
Closed 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

  • Employment
  • Connecticut
Closed Case

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

  • Students' Rights
  • California
Closed Case

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:

  • Anti-LGBT Policies
  • Trans Rights
  • Louisiana
Closed Approximate Case

Diaz v. Brewer (formerly Collins v. Brewer)

Case representing Arizona lesbian and gay state employees facing elimination of their domestic partner benefits.

Case Filed: 10/28/2011

Court: United States District Court of Arizona

  • Employment
  • Health Care
  • Arizona
Landmark Case

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

  • Family Protections
  • California
Closed Case

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

  • HIV
  • Family Protections
  • Mississippi