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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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
Case representing Texas lesbian denied the opportunity to interview for a permanent teaching position at a Texas community college.
Case Filed: 10/28/2011
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Decision: Victory
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
(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
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
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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
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
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
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Decision: Victory
(Amicus) Case arguing that Children’s Services must provide a transgender youth sex reassignment treatment if it is found medically necessary
Case Filed: 10/28/2011
Court: New York Supreme Court
Case charging Qwest Communications with failing to protect an employee from severe antigay harassment in the workplace
Case Filed: 10/28/2011
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Case arguing against the discriminatory firing of a lesbian attorney
Case Filed: 10/28/2011
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Lawsuit brought by an antigay legal group attempting to strip away Wisconsin’s newly enacted domestic partnership registry for same-sex couples...
Case Filed: 10/28/2011
Court: Dane County Circuit Court
Decision: Victory
Case arguing for the rights of a non-biological parent to receive primary custody of a child if biological parent is...
Case Filed: 10/28/2011
Court: Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decision: Victory
(Amicus) Case arguing for a student’s First Amendment right to freedom of expression
Case Filed: 10/28/2011
Court: United States Supreme Court
Case arguing for a Mexican man to receive asylum in the United States after suffering severe antigay harassment and abuse...
Case Filed: 10/28/2011
Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decision: Victory
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