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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

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 Legal System
  • Trans Rights
  • Florida
Active Case

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 Legal System
  • Trans Rights
  • Washington
Active Case

Anderson 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
  • Trans 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
  • United States
Active Case

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 Legal System
  • Trans Rights
  • Arizona
Closed Approximate Case

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

  • Youth in Out-of-Home Care
  • United States
Active Case

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
  • Trans 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

  • Trans Rights
  • New York
Closed Approximate Case

Whitman-Walker Clinic v. HHS

Lambda Legal and Steptoe & Johnson LLP filed a lawsuit challenging the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)...

Case Filed: 06/22/2020

Court: United States District Court for the District of Columbia

  • Anti-LGBT Policies
  • Health Care
  • Trans Rights
Active Case

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

  • Trans Rights
  • Texas
Closed Approximate Case

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
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

  • Students' Rights
  • South Carolina
Active Case

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

  • Fair Courts
  • Michigan
Active Case

M.H.W. v. Cuomo

Lambda Legal filed a federal lawsuit challenging New York State’s policy categorically prohibiting transgender minors from correcting the sex designation...

Case Filed: 01/07/2020

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

  • Anti-LGBT Policies
  • Trans Rights
  • Students' Rights
  • New York
Closed Case

Kiviti v. Pompeo

Lambda Legal, with Immigration Equality and pro bono counsel Morgan Lewis, filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court of...

Case Filed: 09/12/2019

Court: U.S. District Court of Maryland

  • Immigration and Asylum
  • Family Protections
  • Maryland