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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

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
Landmark Case

In re Guardianship of Sharon Kowalski

Landmark case seeking guardianship of a recently disabled woman for her same-sex partner

Case Filed: 10/28/2011

Court: Minnesota Court of Appeals

Decision: Landmark Case

  • Minnesota
Closed Case

Lopez v. River Oaks

Case arguing federal discrimination after a woman has job offer rescinded because she is transgender

Case Filed: 10/28/2011

Court: Federal Court of the Southern District of Texas

  • Employment and Rights in the Workplace
  • Transgender and Nonbinary Rights
  • Texas
Closed Case

Roach v. Roach n.k.a. Silverwolf

Case arguing to uphold alimony payments to a Transgender man

Case Filed: 10/28/2011

Court: Circuit Court of the 6th Judicial Circuit in and for Pinellas County, Florida

  • Transgender and Nonbinary Rights
  • Florida
Closed Case

Witt v. United States Department of the Air Force

Case arguing against the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy

Case Filed: 10/28/2011

Court: Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals

  • Washington
Closed Case

Ithaca City School District v. NY State Division of Human Rights

Appeal addressing whether the New York State Human Rights Law protects students from discrimination by and harassment in public school...

Case Filed: 10/28/2011

Court:

  • Students' Rights
  • New York
Closed Case

Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Springfield-in-Illinois et al. v. Illinois et al.

Adoption and parenting case in which Catholic Charities sued Illinois to force the state to renew a contract for foster...

Case Filed: 10/28/2011

Court:

  • Marriage, Relationships and Family Protections
  • Religious Exemptions
  • Youth in Out-of-Home Care
  • Illinois
Closed Approximate Case

Caldwell v. SkyWest Airlines, Inc.; Delta Airlines, Inc.

Case winning equal travel benefits for spouses of lesbian and gay employees of SkyWest Airlines.

Case Filed: 10/28/2011

Court:

Decision: Victory

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