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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Lambda Legal filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana on behalf of William...
Case Filed: 10/24/2017
Court: United States District Court Western District of Louisiana Lafayette Division
Lambda Legal filed a friend-of-the-court brief on behalf of nine national HIV advocacy organizations in King v. Burwell, the latest...
Case Filed: 05/21/2015
Court: United States Supreme Court
Decision: Victory
Case representing low-income Louisianans living with HIV who are at risk of losing their health insurance because Louisiana insurance companies...
Case Filed: 02/25/2014
Court: U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana
Decision: Victory
In May 2009, Daniel James Rick had a sexual relationship with another man of unknown HIV status, D.B., in which...
Case Filed: 08/22/2013
Court: Minnesota Supreme Court
Amicus brief to the Board of Immigration Appeals in support of Jose Luis Ramirez, an HIV-positive immigrant contesting an Immigration...
Case Filed: 04/11/2013
Court: Board of Immigration Appeals
HIV criminalization case where an HIV-positive man was sentenced to 25 years in prison and lifetime registration as a sex...
Case Filed: 06/14/2012
Court: Iowa Supreme Court
Decision: Landmark Case
Case involving a man who bit a police officer and whose saliva was ruled a “dangerous instrument” because he has...
Case Filed: 04/24/2012
Court: New York Court of Appeals
Amicus brief to the U.S. Court of Appeal for the Ninth Circuit in support of asylum protection for Karolina Lopez...
Case Filed: 04/20/2012
Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
U.S. Supreme Court case challenging the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act, a law that greatly expands access to health...
Case Filed: 01/13/2012
Court: U.S. Supreme Court
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
Case representing man refused dental care because he has HIV.
Case Filed: 10/28/2011
Court: New Jersey Superior Court
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
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
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
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
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