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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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:
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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:
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
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
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
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