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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 Approximate Case

L.P. v. Philadelphia, et al.

Case representing a transgender girl subjected to verbal and physical abuse because of her sexual orientation, gender identity, sex and...

Case Filed: 10/28/2011

Court: City of Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations

  • Transgender and Nonbinary Rights
  • Youth in Out-of-Home Care
  • Pennsylvania
Closed Case

In re Gwin

Administrative appeal of a state Medicaid program’s refusal to cover the cost of a life-saving organ transplant because the recipient...

Case Filed: 10/28/2011

Court: Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System

  • Health Care Fairness
  • HIV
  • Arizona
Closed Case

Lewis v. New York State Department of Civil Service, et al.

Case arguing that New York’s state government follows the law by respecting out-of-state marriages of same-sex couples.

Case Filed: 10/28/2011

Court: York State Supreme Court, Albany County

  • New York
Closed Case

Ralph v. City of New Orleans

Case arguing to preserve insurance benefits for same-sex couples after they are threatened by antigay group

Case Filed: 10/28/2011

Court: Court of Appeal, Fourth Circuit; Civil District Court, Parish of Orleans

Decision: Victory

  • Health Care Fairness
  • Marriage, Relationships and Family Protections
  • Louisiana
Closed Case

Vasquez v. Hawthorne

(Amicus) case on behalf of a man seeking to recover property from his deceased same-sex partner’s estate after a nearly...

Case Filed: 10/28/2011

Court: Washington Supreme Court

  • Washington
Closed Case

Golinski v. United States Office of Personnel Management

Federal case seeking spousal health benefits for lesbian employee of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Case Filed: 10/28/2011

Court: U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Decision: Victory

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

Garden State Equality, et al. v. Dow, et al.

Case seeking the right to marry for same-sex couples in New Jersey.

Case Filed: 10/28/2011

Court: New Jersey Superior Court

Decision: Landmark Case

  • Marriage, Relationships and Family Protections
  • New Jersey
Closed Approximate Case

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

  • Marriage, Relationships and Family Protections
  • Alabama
Closed Case

In re Little

Case arguing the right for a man living with HIV to receive care after being rejected from six nursing homes...

Case Filed: 10/28/2011

Court:

  • Health Care Fairness
  • HIV
  • Louisiana
Closed Case

Logan v. Gary Community School Corporation

Case arguing in favor of a transgender high school student’s First Amendment right to wear a dress to prom.

Case Filed: 10/28/2011

Court: United States District Court for the Northern District of Indiana, Hammond

  • Transgender and Nonbinary Rights
  • Students' Rights
  • Indiana
Closed Case

Rose v. Cahee, et al.

Case brought against a doctor, clinic and health care institution after a woman was refused necessary surgery because of her...

Case Filed: 10/28/2011

Court: U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin

  • Health Care Fairness
  • HIV
  • Religious Exemptions
  • Wisconsin
Closed Case

Wadington v. Holmdel Township Board of Education

Case arguing for a student’s right to be protected from antigay harassment

Case Filed: 10/28/2011

Court: Superior Court of Monmouth County

Decision: Victory

  • Students' Rights
  • New Jersey
Closed Case

Gotti v. Raemisch

Case involving the right of transgender people in prison to receive appropriate medical treatment.

Case Filed: 10/28/2011

Court: United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin

  • Transgender and Nonbinary Rights
  • Wisconsin
Closed Case

In the Matter of Alcota

Amicus brief criticizing the denial of immigration relief for the wife of a U.S. citizen.

Case Filed: 10/28/2011

Court: Board of Immigration Appeals

Decision: Victory

  • Anti-LGBTQ+ Rulings, Laws and Amendments
  • Immigration and Asylum
  • Marriage, Relationships and Family Protections
  • New York
Closed Approximate Case

Prashad v. Copeland, et al.

Case representing a Virginia same-sex couple seeking to fend off the surrogate mother’s attack on the North Carolina consent order...

Case Filed: 10/28/2011

Court: Virginia Court of Appeals

  • Marriage, Relationships and Family Protections
  • Virginia