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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In re Y.S.
(Amicus) Case arguing for a gay man to receive asylum to avoid persecution in his native country because of his...
Case Filed: 10/28/2011
Court: Second Circuit Court of Appeals
Kerrigan v. State of Connecticut
(Amicus) Case seeking the right for same-sex couples to marry in Connecticut
Case Filed: 10/28/2011
Court: Connecticut Supreme Court
Decision: Landmark Case
Murray
Matter of an individual who was denied eligibility for transplant procedure because of his HIV status
Case Filed: 10/28/2011
Court:
T.B. v. L.R.M.
Case arguing to protect the rights of gay and lesbian parents to be fully recognized as such, even if they...
Case Filed: 10/28/2011
Court: Pennsylvania Superior Court
Decision: Victory
Ohio v. Bird
Friend-of-the-court brief in support of a man living with HIV who was convicted of committing assault with a deadly weapon...
Case Filed: 10/28/2011
Court: Ohio Supreme Court
Cole v. Arkansas Department of Human Services
Amicus brief in support of challenge to Arkansas’ Act 1, which prohibits unmarried individuals living with a sexual partner from...
Case Filed: 10/28/2011
Court: Arkansas Supreme Court
In the Matter of J.D. Fairchild
Case seeking to maintain a joint custody agreement between two lesbian parents despite Ohio’s antigay amendment
Case Filed: 10/28/2011
Court: Ohio Supreme Court
Decision: Victory
Knight v. Schwarzenegger
Case arguing to uphold domestic partnership laws despite Proposition 22, California’s antigay marriage initiative
Case Filed: 10/28/2011
Court: California Supreme Court
Decision: Victory
Nabozny v. Podlesny
Groundbreaking case arguing that schools have a responsibility to protect students from antigay verbal and physical abuse
Case Filed: 10/28/2011
Court: U.S. Court of Appeals, 7th Circuit
Decision: Landmark Case
Timmerman v. Waite and Urias
Case invoking the Wisconsin hate crimes law after a university student is brutally attacked by two men because he is...
Case Filed: 10/28/2011
Court: Circuit Court of Grant County, Wisconsin
Calhoun v. Pennington
Case brought against the city of Atlanta, the chief of police and individual officers for illegally searching, detaining and harassing...
Case Filed: 10/28/2011
Court: U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia
In the Matter of L.K.M.
Case on behalf of a non-biological mother seeking shared custody and visitation rights with the child she has parented with...
Case Filed: 10/28/2011
Court: Ohio Supreme Court
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
Hervella v. Kriebel, Administrator of the Estate of Margaret A. O’Neil
Case on behalf of Amalia Hervella who was denied access to the estate of her deceased partner because they were...
Case Filed: 10/28/2011
Court: San Diego County Superior Court
Koebke v. Bernardo Heights Country Club
Case in California arguing that businesses that extend benefits to married couples must also extend them on an equal basis...
Case Filed: 10/28/2011
Court: California Supreme Court
Decision: Victory