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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

Day v. Social Security Administration, et al.

Case seeking disability benefits for the children of a same-sex couple

Case Filed: 05/28/2008

Court:

  • Florida
Closed Case

Doe et al. v. Montgomery County Board of Elections

Lawsuit challenging an illegal referendum petition that attempted to overturn a transgender antidiscrimination law in Montgomery County, Maryland.

Case Filed: 03/14/2008

Court: Maryland Court of Appeals

  • Transgender and Nonbinary Rights
  • Maryland
Closed Case

California Education Committee, LLC, et al. v. O’Connell

Case defending California’s antidiscrimination protections for students and hate crimes laws

Case Filed: 12/21/2007

Court:

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

Adar v. Smith

Case representing gay fathers who were refused a birth certificate for their newly adopted son by the office of the...

Case Filed: 10/09/2007

Court: U.S. District Court, Eastern District Of Louisiana

  • Louisiana
Closed Case

Hudson Valley LGBTQ Community Center v. Bahruth

Case challenging the wrongful denial of non-profit property tax exemption for a New York LGBTQ community center

Case Filed: 09/28/2007

Court: Supreme Court of New York, Ulster County

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

DeWolf and Watts v. Countrywide

Case challenging a mortgage company’s unlawful refusal to allow a lesbian couple to share a mortgage on a home.

Case Filed: 05/24/2007

Court: Southern District of New York Federal Court

  • New York
Closed Case

Doe v. Department of Veterans Affairs, et al.

(Amicus) Federal Privacy Act case brought by a federal employee after a workplace doctor revealed his HIV status to a...

Case Filed: 05/15/2007

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

  • HIV
  • Minnesota
Closed Case

deGroen v. City of Bellevue

Case arguing for equal employment benefits for partners of gay and lesbian employees as offered to heterosexual married employees

Case Filed: 04/17/2007

Court: King County Superior Court

  • Washington
Closed Case

Ellis v. Arriaga

Case arguing for equal protections for domestic partners who thought their relationships were registered with the state but were not...

Case Filed: 01/31/2007

Court: Fourth District Court of Appeal, Division Three

  • Marriage, Relationships and Family Protections
  • California
Closed Case

Donovan and Ramelli v. Poway Unified School District

Case arguing that a school must protect students from persistent and severe antigay harassment

Case Filed: 11/21/2006

Court: California Court of Appeal for the Fourth District

  • Students' Rights
  • California
Closed Approximate Case

Cook v. Rumsfeld

Case challenging the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy

Case Filed: 11/01/2006

Court: First Circuit Court of Appeals

  • Massachusetts
Closed Case

Conaway v. Deane & Polyak

(Amicus) Case seeking the right for same-sex couples to marry in Maryland

Case Filed: 10/19/2006

Court: Maryland State Court

  • Marriage, Relationships and Family Protections
  • Maryland
Closed Case

Godfrey v. Spano

Case arguing for recognition of out-of-state marriages of same-sex couples in Westchester County

Case Filed: 09/01/2006

Court: Supreme Court of Westchester County

  • Marriage, Relationships and Family Protections
  • New York
Closed Approximate Case

Barros v. Riggall

Case arguing against a clinic’s policy of refusing fertility services to gay men

Case Filed: 09/01/2006

Court:

  • Health Care Fairness
  • Florida
Closed Case

Florida Family Policy Council v. Freeman

(Amicus) Case arguing in favor of the “recusal canon” to maintain fair and impartial judges

Case Filed: 08/01/2006

Court:

  • Fair Courts
  • Florida