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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

Couture v. Bonfils Memorial Blood Center

Employment discrimination case under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) in which court did not reach issue of whether person...

Case Filed: 10/28/2011

Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit

  • Employment
  • HIV
  • Colorado
Closed Case

In re John Carl

Case representing HIV positive man denied kidney transplant.

Case Filed: 10/28/2011

Court:

Decision: Victory

  • Health Care
  • HIV
  • Colorado
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

  • Family Protections
  • Virginia
Landmark Case

Kerrigan v. State of Connecticut

(Amicus) Case seeking the right for same-sex couples to marry in Connecticut

Case Filed: 10/28/2011

Court: Connecticut Supreme Court

Decision: Landmark Case

  • Family Protections
  • Connecticut
Closed Case

Murray

Matter of an individual who was denied eligibility for transplant procedure because of his HIV status

Case Filed: 10/28/2011

Court:

  • Health Care
  • HIV
  • Maryland
Closed Case

T.B. v. L.R.M.

Case arguing to protect the rights of gay and lesbian parents to be fully recognized as such, even if they...

Case Filed: 10/28/2011

Court: Pennsylvania Superior Court

Decision: Victory

  • Family Protections
  • Pennsylvania
Closed Case

Ohio v. Bird

Friend-of-the-court brief in support of a man living with HIV who was convicted of committing assault with a deadly weapon...

Case Filed: 10/28/2011

Court: Ohio Supreme Court

  • HIV
  • Ohio
Closed Case

Cole v. Arkansas Department of Human Services

Amicus brief in support of challenge to Arkansas’ Act 1, which prohibits unmarried individuals living with a sexual partner from...

Case Filed: 10/28/2011

Court: Arkansas Supreme Court

  • Anti-LGBT Policies
  • Family Protections
  • Arkansas
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
  • Family Protections
  • California
Closed Case

Knight v. Schwarzenegger

Case arguing to uphold domestic partnership laws despite Proposition 22, California’s antigay marriage initiative

Case Filed: 10/28/2011

Court: California Supreme Court

Decision: Victory

  • Anti-LGBT Policies
  • Family Protections
  • California
Landmark Case

Nabozny v. Podlesny

Groundbreaking case arguing that schools have a responsibility to protect students from antigay verbal and physical abuse

Case Filed: 10/28/2011

Court: U.S. Court of Appeals, 7th Circuit

Decision: Landmark Case

  • Students' Rights
  • Wisconsin
Closed Case

Timmerman v. Waite and Urias

Case invoking the Wisconsin hate crimes law after a university student is brutally attacked by two men because he is...

Case Filed: 10/28/2011

Court: Circuit Court of Grant County, Wisconsin

  • Wisconsin
Closed Case

Calhoun v. Pennington

Case brought against the city of Atlanta, the chief of police and individual officers for illegally searching, detaining and harassing...

Case Filed: 10/28/2011

Court: U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

  • Criminal Legal System
  • Georgia
Closed Case

In the Matter of L.K.M.

Case on behalf of a non-biological mother seeking shared custody and visitation rights with the child she has parented with...

Case Filed: 10/28/2011

Court: Ohio Supreme Court

  • Anti-LGBT Policies
  • Family Protections
  • Ohio
Closed Approximate Case

Roe v. City of Atlanta

Case in which a man living with HIV challenged the Atlanta Police Department’s refusal to hire HIV-positive police officers.

Case Filed: 10/28/2011

Court:

Decision: Victory

  • Employment
  • HIV
  • Georgia