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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

Lopez v. River Oaks

Case arguing federal discrimination after a woman has job offer rescinded because she is transgender

Case Filed: 10/28/2011

Court: Federal Court of the Southern District of Texas

  • Employment and Rights in the Workplace
  • Transgender and Nonbinary Rights
  • Texas
Closed Case

Roach v. Roach n.k.a. Silverwolf

Case arguing to uphold alimony payments to a Transgender man

Case Filed: 10/28/2011

Court: Circuit Court of the 6th Judicial Circuit in and for Pinellas County, Florida

  • Transgender and Nonbinary Rights
  • Florida
Closed Case

Witt v. United States Department of the Air Force

Case arguing against the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy

Case Filed: 10/28/2011

Court: Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals

  • Washington
Closed Case

Ithaca City School District v. NY State Division of Human Rights

Appeal addressing whether the New York State Human Rights Law protects students from discrimination by and harassment in public school...

Case Filed: 10/28/2011

Court:

  • Students' Rights
  • New York
Closed Case

Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Springfield-in-Illinois et al. v. Illinois et al.

Adoption and parenting case in which Catholic Charities sued Illinois to force the state to renew a contract for foster...

Case Filed: 10/28/2011

Court:

  • Marriage, Relationships and Family Protections
  • Religious Exemptions
  • Youth in Out-of-Home Care
  • Illinois
Closed Approximate Case

Caldwell v. SkyWest Airlines, Inc.; Delta Airlines, Inc.

Case winning equal travel benefits for spouses of lesbian and gay employees of SkyWest Airlines.

Case Filed: 10/28/2011

Court:

Decision: Victory

  • Employment and Rights in the Workplace
  • Marriage, Relationships and Family Protections
  • California
Closed Case

Giancaspro v. Congleton

Case seeking to reverse a Michigan trial court ruling that violated the Full Faith and Credit clause by making three...

Case Filed: 10/28/2011

Court: Michigan State Court of Appeals

Decision: Victory

  • Marriage, Relationships and Family Protections
  • Michigan
Closed Case

In re Infant Girl W.

Case arguing for joint adoption by same-sex couples

Case Filed: 10/28/2011

Court: Indiana Supreme Court

Decision: Victory

  • Marriage, Relationships and Family Protections
  • Indiana
Closed Case

Matter of Kyle Smith

Case arguing against the Foreign Service’s policy of not hiring anyone who is HIV positive.

Case Filed: 10/28/2011

Court:

  • Employment and Rights in the Workplace
  • HIV
  • Washington, D.C.
Closed Case

Rodriguez v. Johnson et al.

Case arguing against a residential center’s withholding of prescription hormone medication and punishment of gender expression for a transgender woman

Case Filed: 10/28/2011

Court: United States District Court, Southern District of New York

Decision: Victory

  • Health Care Fairness
  • Transgender and Nonbinary Rights
  • New York
Closed Case

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Lee’s Log Cabin, Inc.

Employment discrimination case under ADA in which court ruled that evidence of the impact of AIDS on the claimant did...

Case Filed: 10/28/2011

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

  • Employment and Rights in the Workplace
  • HIV
  • Wisconsin
Closed Case

Cleveland Taxpayers v. Cleveland

Lawsuit brought by an antigay legal group attempting to strip away the City of Cleveland’s newly enacted domestic partnership registry...

Case Filed: 10/28/2011

Court: Ohio Court of Appeals, Eighth Appellate District

  • Marriage, Relationships and Family Protections
  • Ohio
Closed Case

Friedlander v. Waroge Met, Ltd. d/b/a/ Sizzler

Lawsuit invoking the New York City and State Civil and Human Rights Laws in the case of a woman attacked...

Case Filed: 10/28/2011

Court:

  • New York
Closed Approximate Case

Roe v. City of Atlanta

Case in which a man living with HIV challenged the Atlanta Police Department’s refusal to hire HIV-positive police officers.

Case Filed: 10/28/2011

Court:

Decision: Victory

  • Employment and Rights in the Workplace
  • HIV
  • Georgia
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