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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

In the Matter of J.D. Fairchild

Case seeking to maintain a joint custody agreement between two lesbian parents despite Ohio’s antigay amendment

Case Filed: 10/28/2011

Court: Ohio Supreme Court

Decision: Victory

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

In re Marriage Cases

Case seeking the right for same-sex couples to marry in California

Case Filed: 10/28/2011

Court: California Supreme Court

Decision: Landmark Case

  • Family Protections
  • California
Closed Case

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:

  • Employment
  • HIV
  • Georgia
Closed Case

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

  • West Virginia
Closed Case

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

  • HIV
  • Michigan
Closed Case

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

  • Family Protections
  • New York
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
  • Health Care
  • Arizona
Closed Case

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

  • Health Care
  • HIV
  • Wisconsin
Closed Case

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

  • Family Protections
  • Georgia
Closed Case

Shahar v. Bowers

Case arguing against the discriminatory firing of a lesbian attorney

Case Filed: 10/28/2011

Court:

  • Employment
  • Georgia
Closed Case

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

  • Anti-LGBT Policies
  • Family Protections
  • Wisconsin
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

  • Trans Rights
  • Youth in Out-of-Home Care
  • Pennsylvania
Closed Case

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

  • Health Care
  • Trans Rights
  • Youth in Out-of-Home Care
  • New York
Closed Case

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

Court:

  • Employment
  • Colorado
Closed Case

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

  • Employment
  • Health Care
  • Trans Rights
  • Oregon