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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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Active Case

Hobby Lobby v. Sommerville

Lambda Legal filed a friend-of-the-court brief in support of Meggan Sommerville, a transgender woman, in her almost decade-long fight with...

Case Filed: 12/22/2020

Court: Second District Appellate Court of Illinois

  • Employment and Rights in the Workplace
  • Transgender Rights
  • Illinois
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Immigration Equality v. DHS

Lambda Legal and Immigration Equality, along with co-counsel Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP, filed a federal lawsuit challenging the...

Case Filed: 12/20/2020

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

  • Immigration
  • United States
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C.P. v. Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois

Lambda Legal and Sirianni Youtz Spoonemore Hamburger PLLC filed a federal lawsuit challenging Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois’s (“BCBSIL”)...

Case Filed: 11/23/2020

Court: United States District Court for the Western District of Washington in Tacoma

  • Health Care Fairness
  • Transgender Rights
  • Illinois
  • Washington
Closed Case

Keohane v. Florida Department of Corrections, Secretary

Lambda Legal and the Center for Constitutional Rights filed a friend-of-the-court brief in support of Reiyn Keohane urging the Eleventh...

Case Filed: 11/18/2020

Court: United States Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit

  • Criminal Justice
  • Criminal Justice and Police Misconduct
  • Transgender Rights
  • Florida
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Santiago v. Gage, et al.

Lambda Legal filed a friend-of-the-court brief in support of Ashley Moon Raelynn urging the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to...

Case Filed: 11/18/2020

Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

  • Criminal Justice
  • Criminal Justice and Police Misconduct
  • Transgender Rights
  • Washington
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Fain v. Crouch

Lambda Legal filed a federal lawsuit challenging West Virginia’s blanket exclusions of coverage for gender-confirming care in its Medicaid and...

Case Filed: 11/12/2020

Court: U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia

  • Health Care Fairness
  • Transgender Rights
  • West Virginia
Closed Case

The Diversity Center v. Trump

Lambda Legal has filed a federal lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s recent executive order that prohibits federal contractors and grantees...

Case Filed: 11/03/2020

Court: United States District Court Northern District of California

  • Racial Justice & Low-Income Advocacy
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Gladney v. United States

Lambda Legal, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), and the law firm Boies, Schiller, Flexner LLP filed a friend-of-the-court brief...

Case Filed: 10/21/2020

Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

  • Criminal Justice
  • Criminal Justice and Police Misconduct
  • Transgender Rights
  • Arizona
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California Tribal Families Coalition v. Azar

Represented by Lambda Legal, Democracy Forward, and the Michigan State University College of Law’s Indian Law Clinic, two federally recognized...

Case Filed: 08/26/2020

Court: United States District Court for the Northern District of California, San Francisco Division

  • Adoption and Parenting
  • Youth in Out-of-Home Care
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Wade v. Starbucks Corp.

Lambda Legal and the National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR) led a coalition of LGBTQ advocacy organizations and legal aid...

Case Filed: 08/21/2020

Court: Court of Appeal of the State of California, Fifth Appellate District

  • Employment and Rights in the Workplace
  • Transgender Rights
  • California
Closed Case

Saba v. Cuomo

Lambda Legal represents Sander Saba, a nonbinary transgender New York resident who is seeking an accurate New York driver’s license...

Case Filed: 07/28/2020

Court: United States District Court for the Southern District of New York

  • Transgender Rights
  • New York
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United States v. Varner (a.k.a. Kathrine Nicole Jett)

Lambda Legal filed an amicus brief on behalf of LGBT organizations including Human Rights Campaign, National Center for Transgender Equality,...

Case Filed: 03/20/2020

Court: United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals

  • Criminal Justice
  • Transgender Rights
  • Texas
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Family Equality v. Azar

Lambda Legal and Democracy Forward filed a lawsuit on behalf of three organizations serving vulnerable populations — Family Equality, True...

Case Filed: 03/19/2020

Court: United States District Court for the Southern District of New York

  • Health Care Fairness
Active Case

Gender and Sexuality Alliance v. Spearman

Lambda Legal and the National Center for Lesbian Rights, along with private counsel Womble Bond Dickinson, Brazil & Burke, and...

Case Filed: 02/26/2020

Court: United States District Court for the District of South Carolina, Charleston Division

  • Youth and Schools
  • South Carolina
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People of Michigan v. Jeffrey Martin Six

Lambda Legal and the ACLU of Michigan filed a friend-of-the-court brief on behalf of Jeffrey Martin Six in support of...

Case Filed: 01/30/2020

Court: Michigan Court of Appeals

  • Criminal Justice
  • Fair Courts Project
  • Michigan