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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

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

  • Immigration and Asylum
  • New York
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

  • 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

  • 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
  • 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
  • Trans 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
  • 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

  • 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

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

  • Anti-LGBT Policies
  • Family Protections
  • Ohio
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