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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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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

  • Marriage, Relationships and 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 Fairness
  • 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

  • Marriage, Relationships and 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-LGBTQ+ Rulings, Laws and Amendments
  • Marriage, Relationships and Family Protections
  • Arkansas
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-LGBTQ+ Rulings, Laws and Amendments
  • Marriage, Relationships and Family Protections
  • Ohio
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 and Rights in the Workplace
  • Health Care Fairness
  • Transgender and Nonbinary Rights
  • Oregon
Closed Case

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

  • Marriage, Relationships and Family Protections
  • Hawaii
Closed Case

Franke v. Parkstone Living Center, Inc.

Case brought against assisted living facility on behalf of retiree and his daughter, after the facility evicted the retiree because...

Case Filed: 05/12/2009

Court: U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Arkansas

  • HIV
  • Seniors
  • Arkansas
Closed Case

Central Alabama Pride, Inc. v. Larry Langford

Case on behalf of Central Alabama Pride, a gay group that was denied its free speech rights when the Birmingham...

Case Filed: 02/20/2009

Court: U.S. District Court, Northern District of Alabama

  • Alabama
Closed Case

Strauss v. Horton

A lawsuit contending that Proposition 8 is not a valid initiative because it improperly attempts to undo the California Constitution’s...

Case Filed: 11/05/2008

Court: California State Supreme Court

  • Anti-LGBTQ+ Rulings, Laws and Amendments
  • California
Closed Case

Giles v. City of Johnson City, et al.

Case filed against Johnson City, Tennessee and its police chief on behalf of a man who unfairly had his photo...

Case Filed: 09/30/2008

Court: United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee

  • Criminal Legal System and Police Misconduct
  • Tennessee
Closed Case

Bloem v. Montgomery County Board of Elections

Case filed in an attempt by plaintiffs to undermine Lambda Legal’s Maryland Court of Appeals victory inDoe v. Montgomery County...

Case Filed: 09/25/2008

Court: Montgomery County Circuit Court

  • Transgender and Nonbinary Rights
  • Maryland
Landmark Case

Glenn v. Brumby et. al.

Federal lawsuit filed on behalf of a transgender woman fired from her job as a Legislative Editor after she stated...

Case Filed: 07/22/2008

Court: United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Decision: Landmark Case

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

Embry v. Ryan

Appeal of a Florida family court ruling that a second parent adoption a lesbian obtained in Washington state could not...

Case Filed: 07/01/2008

Court: Florida District Court of Appeal, Second Circuit

  • Marriage, Relationships and Family Protections
  • Florida