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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

Golinski v. United States Office of Personnel Management

Federal case seeking spousal health benefits for lesbian employee of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Case Filed: 10/28/2011

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

Decision: Victory

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

Garden State Equality, et al. v. Dow, et al.

Case seeking the right to marry for same-sex couples in New Jersey.

Case Filed: 10/28/2011

Court: New Jersey Superior Court

Decision: Landmark Case

  • Marriage, Relationships and Family Protections
  • New Jersey
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 and Rights in the Workplace
  • Health Care Fairness
  • Arizona
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

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

  • Transgender and Nonbinary Rights
  • Youth in Out-of-Home Care
  • Pennsylvania
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