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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

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
Closed Case

Stern v. Cosby, et al.

Case involving a claim, among others, that statements describing plaintiff as gay were defamatory per se, entitling him to presumed...

Case Filed: 10/28/2011

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

    Closed Case

    Doe v. Reed

    Lambda Legal, along with Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders (GLAD), the National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR), the Human...

    Case Filed: 10/28/2011

    Court: Supreme Court of the United States

      Closed Case

      Gill v. Devlin and Howell

      Case representing Texas lesbian denied the opportunity to interview for a permanent teaching position at a Texas community college.

      Case Filed: 10/28/2011

      Court:

      Decision: Victory

      • Employment
      • Texas
      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

      • Trans Rights
      • Youth in Out-of-Home Care
      • Pennsylvania
      Closed Case

      In re Spera

      Case arguing that a doctor cannot refuse to perform surgery on a man because of his HIV status

      Case Filed: 10/28/2011

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

      Decision: Victory

      • Health Care
      • HIV
      • Wisconsin
      Closed Case

      Mongerson v. Mongerson

      (Amicus) Custody case arguing that restricting ‘exposure’ to the gay friends of a parent on the sole basis of their...

      Case Filed: 10/28/2011

      Court: Georgia Supreme Court

      • Family Protections
      • Georgia
      Closed Case

      Saavedra v. Nodak Enterprises

      Case representing a skilled glass worker who was fired because his employer claimed his HIV status posed a “direct threat”...

      Case Filed: 10/28/2011

      Court:

      • Employment
      • HIV
      • Georgia
      Closed Case

      Kutil v. Blake

      Appeal of a trial court order taking a thriving one-year-old girl away from her lesbian foster parents because the trial...

      Case Filed: 10/28/2011

      Court: Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia

      Decision: Victory

      • West Virginia
      Closed Case

      People v. Allen

      Case of a man who allegedly bit his neighbor and was charged with violating a Michigan bioterrorism statute based on...

      Case Filed: 10/28/2011

      Court: Macomb County Circuit Court

      Decision: Victory

      • HIV
      • Michigan
      Closed Case

      Dickerson v. Thompson

      Case involving a New York resident seeking an order from a New York court to dissolving her Vermont civil union.

      Case Filed: 10/28/2011

      Court:

      Decision: Victory

      • Family Protections
      • New York
      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

      • Family Protections
      • Alabama