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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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
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
In the Matter of Brian (a.k.a. Mariah) L.
(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
Moreau v. Qwest Communications, Inc.
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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Shahar v. Bowers
Case arguing against the discriminatory firing of a lesbian attorney
Case Filed: 10/28/2011
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Appling v. Doyle
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
Miller v. Jenkins (formerly known as Miller-Jenkins v. Miller-Jenkins)
Case seeking regular visitation rights for a lesbian mother and the daughter she and her former partner had while in...
Case Filed: 10/28/2011
Court: Virginia Court of Appeals
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
Esquivel v. Oregon
Transgender rights case in which a state employee was denied insurance coverage for medically necessary surgery on the basis of...
Case Filed: 12/01/2010
Court:
Decision: Victory
Young v. Lingle
Case seeking civil unions for same-sex couples in Hawai`i.
Case Filed: 07/29/2010
Court: The First Circuit Court of the State of Hawai`i