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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

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

Dept. of HHS v. Florida

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

  • Health Care Fairness
  • HIV
Closed Case

In the Matter of Brian (a.k.a. Mariah) L.

(Amicus) Case arguing that Children’s Services must provide a transgender youth sex reassignment treatment if it is found medically necessary

Case Filed: 10/28/2011

Court: New York Supreme Court

  • Health Care Fairness
  • Transgender and Nonbinary Rights
  • Youth in Out-of-Home Care
  • New York
Closed Case

Langbehn v. Jackson Memorial Hospital

Case challenging a hospital’s decision to keep a lesbian from visiting her dying partner.

Case Filed: 10/28/2011

Court: District court for the southern district of florida

  • Health Care Fairness
  • Marriage, Relationships and Family Protections
  • Florida
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

Ralph v. City of New Orleans

Case arguing to preserve insurance benefits for same-sex couples after they are threatened by antigay group

Case Filed: 10/28/2011

Court: Court of Appeal, Fourth Circuit; Civil District Court, Parish of Orleans

Decision: Victory

  • Health Care Fairness
  • Marriage, Relationships and Family Protections
  • Louisiana
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

Rodriguez v. Johnson et al.

Case arguing against a residential center’s withholding of prescription hormone medication and punishment of gender expression for a transgender woman

Case Filed: 10/28/2011

Court: United States District Court, Southern District of New York

Decision: Victory

  • Health Care Fairness
  • Transgender and Nonbinary Rights
  • New York
Closed Case

Fields v. Smith

Case challenging a Wisconsin law that bars access to hormone therapy or sex reassignment surgery for prison inmates and others...

Case Filed: 10/28/2011

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

Decision: Victory

  • Health Care Fairness
  • Transgender and Nonbinary Rights
  • 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

In re John Carl

Case representing HIV positive man denied kidney transplant.

Case Filed: 10/28/2011

Court:

Decision: Victory

  • Health Care Fairness
  • HIV
  • Colorado
Closed Approximate Case

Diaz v. Brewer (formerly Collins v. Brewer)

Case representing Arizona lesbian and gay state employees facing elimination of their domestic partner benefits.

Case Filed: 10/28/2011

Court: United States District Court of Arizona

  • Employment and Rights in the Workplace
  • Health Care Fairness
  • Arizona
Closed Case

In re Gwin

Administrative appeal of a state Medicaid program’s refusal to cover the cost of a life-saving organ transplant because the recipient...

Case Filed: 10/28/2011

Court: Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System

  • Health Care Fairness
  • HIV
  • Arizona
Closed Case

In re Little

Case arguing the right for a man living with HIV to receive care after being rejected from six nursing homes...

Case Filed: 10/28/2011

Court:

  • Health Care Fairness
  • HIV
  • Louisiana
Closed Case

In re Spera

Case arguing that a doctor cannot refuse to perform surgery on a man because of his HIV status

Case Filed: 10/28/2011

Court: United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin

Decision: Victory

  • Health Care Fairness
  • HIV
  • Wisconsin