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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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Passion Star a/k/a Zollicoffer v. Livingston

Lambda Legal filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of Passion Star (legal name: Zollicoffer), a transgender woman currently in the...

Case Filed: 10/23/2014

Court: United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas

Decision: Victory

  • Criminal Legal System and Police Misconduct
  • Racial Justice and Low-Income Advocacy
  • Transgender and Nonbinary Rights
  • Texas
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Teevan v. County of Westchester, et al.

Case filed against Westchester County, N.Y., police for releasing sealed arrest records in public sex sting.

Case Filed: 12/31/2012

Court: U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York

  • Criminal Legal System and Police Misconduct
  • New York
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Millbrook v. United States

Amicus brief defending a federal prisoner’s right to sue the U.S. government after sexual assault by a prison guard.

Case Filed: 12/12/2012

Court: U.S. Supreme Court

  • Criminal Legal System and Police Misconduct
  • Pennsylvania
Closed Case

Lopez Berera v. Holder

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

  • Criminal Legal System and Police Misconduct
  • Health Care Fairness
  • HIV
  • Immigration and Asylum
  • Transgender and Nonbinary Rights
Closed Case

In re Warm Sands Cases

Amicus brief with the Appellate Division of the Superior Court of Riverside County asking the court to reverse several convictions...

Case Filed: 04/20/2012

Court: Appellate Division of the Superior Court of Riverside County

  • Criminal Legal System and Police Misconduct
  • California
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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
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Calhoun v. Pennington

Case brought against the city of Atlanta, the chief of police and individual officers for illegally searching, detaining and harassing...

Case Filed: 10/28/2011

Court: U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

  • Criminal Legal System and Police Misconduct
  • Georgia
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