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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

Murray

Matter of an individual who was denied eligibility for transplant procedure because of his HIV status

Case Filed: 10/28/2011

Court:

  • Health Care Fairness
  • HIV
  • Maryland
Closed Case

Rose v. Cahee, et al.

Case brought against a doctor, clinic and health care institution after a woman was refused necessary surgery because of her...

Case Filed: 10/28/2011

Court: U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin

  • Health Care Fairness
  • HIV
  • Religious Exemptions
  • Wisconsin
Closed Case

Rowell v. Rowell

Case arguing against a custody arrangement that is contingent on the children being blocked from seeing their HIV positive aunt

Case Filed: 10/28/2011

Court: Chancery Court of Jackson County

Decision: Victory

  • HIV
  • Marriage, Relationships and Family Protections
  • Mississippi
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
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

Doust v. Doe

Case representing man refused dental care because he has HIV.

Case Filed: 10/28/2011

Court: New Jersey Superior Court

  • Health Care Fairness
  • HIV
  • New Jersey
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

Ohio v. Bird

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

  • HIV
  • Ohio
Closed Case

Franke v. Parkstone Living Center, Inc.

Case brought against assisted living facility on behalf of retiree and his daughter, after the facility evicted the retiree because...

Case Filed: 05/12/2009

Court: U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Arkansas

  • HIV
  • Seniors
  • Arkansas
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

Doe v. County of Centre

(Amicus) case arguing against a policy instituted by the Centre County Children and Youth Services, which barred placement of HIV-negative...

Case Filed: 05/01/2000

Court:

  • HIV
  • Pennsylvania
Closed Case

Bragdon v. Abbott

(Amicus) Case arguing that a dentist cannot refuse care for a patient with HIV

Case Filed: 06/01/1998

Court: United States Supreme Court

  • Health Care Fairness
  • HIV
  • Maine
Closed Case

Doe v. Mutual of Omaha Insurance Company

Case arguing against a health insurance provider’s limiting policies for clients living with HIV

Case Filed: 01/01/1998

Court:

  • Health Care Fairness
  • HIV
  • Illinois
Closed Case

Doe v. Chubb Sovereign Insurance

Case arguing against an insurance company’s denial of life insurance coverage for the spouse of a man living with HIV

Case Filed: 04/01/1996

Court:

  • HIV
  • California