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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

McCreery v. Don’s Valley Market

Transgender employment discrimination case in which a transgender woman was fired after she told her boss she would be transitioning.

Case Filed: 09/24/2013

Court:

Decision: Victory

  • Employment and Rights in the Workplace
  • Transgender and Nonbinary Rights
  • South Dakota
Closed Case

Harris v. Millennium Hotel

Case representing same-sex partner of shooting victim seeking survivor benefits in Alaska.

Case Filed: 09/19/2012

Court: Alaska Workers’ Compensation Board

Decision: Victory

  • Employment and Rights in the Workplace
  • Alaska
Closed Case

Selby and Ballard v. Baltimore County

Case arguing that Baltimore County respect the out-of-state marriage of county employees and provide spousal benefits to married same-sex couples.

Case Filed: 12/15/2011

Court:

  • Employment and Rights in the Workplace
  • Criminal Legal System and Police Misconduct
  • Marriage, Relationships and Family Protections
  • Maryland
Closed Case

Mitchell v. Bremen Community High School District No. 228 and Gleason, et al.

Case arguing against the termination of a school superintendent because he is gay

Case Filed: 10/28/2011

Court:

  • Employment and Rights in the Workplace
  • Illinois
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 and Rights in the Workplace
  • Colorado
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 and Rights in the Workplace
  • HIV
  • Georgia
Closed Case

Shahar v. Bowers

Case arguing against the discriminatory firing of a lesbian attorney

Case Filed: 10/28/2011

Court:

  • Employment and Rights in the Workplace
  • Georgia
Landmark Case

Taylor v. Rice

Case Filed: 10/28/2011

Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia

Decision: Landmark Case

  • Employment and Rights in the Workplace
  • HIV
  • Washington, D.C.
Closed Case

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Lee’s Log Cabin, Inc.

Employment discrimination case under ADA in which court ruled that evidence of the impact of AIDS on the claimant did...

Case Filed: 10/28/2011

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

  • Employment and Rights in the Workplace
  • HIV
  • Wisconsin
Closed Case

Patino v. Birken Manufacturing Co.

Case arguing that Birken Manufacturing failed to protect one of its employees from severe antigay harassment in the workplace.

Case Filed: 10/28/2011

Court: Connecticut Superior Court for the Judicial District of Hartford

Decision: Victory

  • Employment and Rights in the Workplace
  • Connecticut
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 and Rights in the Workplace
  • HIV
  • Colorado
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
Closed Case

Gill v. Devlin and Howell

Case representing Texas lesbian denied the opportunity to interview for a permanent teaching position at a Texas community college.

Case Filed: 10/28/2011

Court:

Decision: Victory

  • Employment and Rights in the Workplace
  • Texas
Closed Case

Hickman v. Donna Curry Investments, LLC, et al.

Man fired from a Subway restaurant after disclosing his HIV status

Case Filed: 10/28/2011

Court: United States District Court for the District of Nevada

Decision: Victory

  • Employment and Rights in the Workplace
  • HIV
  • Nevada
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