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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Garden State Equality, et al. v. Dow, et al.
Case seeking the right to marry for same-sex couples in New Jersey.
Case Filed: 10/28/2011
Court: New Jersey Superior Court
Decision: Landmark 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
In the Matter of Alcota
Amicus brief criticizing the denial of immigration relief for the wife of a U.S. citizen.
Case Filed: 10/28/2011
Court: Board of Immigration Appeals
Decision: Victory
In re S.J.L. and J.K.L.
Case seeking custodial rights for a non-biological mother whose ex-partner used Ohio’s constitutional amendment in an attempt to have her...
Case Filed: 10/28/2011
Court: Ohio Eighth District Court of Appeals
Decision: Victory
Giancaspro v. Congleton
Case seeking to reverse a Michigan trial court ruling that violated the Full Faith and Credit clause by making three...
Case Filed: 10/28/2011
Court: Michigan State Court of Appeals
Decision: Victory
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
Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Springfield-in-Illinois et al. v. Illinois et al.
Adoption and parenting case in which Catholic Charities sued Illinois to force the state to renew a contract for foster...
Case Filed: 10/28/2011
Court:
In the Matter of J.D. Fairchild
Case seeking to maintain a joint custody agreement between two lesbian parents despite Ohio’s antigay amendment
Case Filed: 10/28/2011
Court: Ohio Supreme Court
Decision: Victory
T.B. v. L.R.M.
Case arguing to protect the rights of gay and lesbian parents to be fully recognized as such, even if they...
Case Filed: 10/28/2011
Court: Pennsylvania Superior Court
Decision: Victory
Dickerson v. Thompson
Case involving a New York resident seeking an order from a New York court to dissolving her Vermont civil union.
Case Filed: 10/28/2011
Court:
Decision: Victory
N.B. v. A.K.
Case seeking regular visitation rights for a lesbian mother and the child she and her former partner co-parented in California.
Case Filed: 10/28/2011
Court: Alabama Supreme Court
Varnum v. Brien
Case that won the right for same-sex couples to marry in Iowa
Case Filed: 10/28/2011
Court: Iowa Supreme Court
Decision: Landmark Case
Miller v. Jenkins (formerly known as Miller-Jenkins v. Miller-Jenkins)
Case seeking regular visitation rights for a lesbian mother and the daughter she and her former partner had while in...
Case Filed: 10/28/2011
Court: Virginia Court of Appeals
Prashad v. Copeland, et al.
Case representing a Virginia same-sex couple seeking to fend off the surrogate mother’s attack on the North Carolina consent order...
Case Filed: 10/28/2011
Court: Virginia Court of Appeals
Appling v. Doyle
Lawsuit brought by an antigay legal group attempting to strip away Wisconsin’s newly enacted domestic partnership registry for same-sex couples...
Case Filed: 10/28/2011
Court: Dane County Circuit Court
Decision: Victory