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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

Cole v. Arkansas Department of Human Services

Amicus brief in support of challenge to Arkansas’ Act 1, which prohibits unmarried individuals living with a sexual partner from...

Case Filed: 10/28/2011

Court: Arkansas Supreme Court

  • Anti-LGBTQ+ Rulings, Laws and Amendments
  • Marriage, Relationships and Family Protections
  • Arkansas
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

In the Matter of L.K.M.

Case on behalf of a non-biological mother seeking shared custody and visitation rights with the child she has parented with...

Case Filed: 10/28/2011

Court: Ohio Supreme Court

  • Anti-LGBTQ+ Rulings, Laws and Amendments
  • Marriage, Relationships and Family Protections
  • Ohio
Closed Case

Lewis v. Harris

Case seeking the right to marry for same-sex couples in New Jersey

Case Filed: 10/28/2011

Court: New Jersey Supreme Court

  • Marriage, Relationships and Family Protections
  • New Jersey
Closed Case

Raftopol et al. v. Ramey et al.

Case in which a same-sex married couple sued the Connecticut Department of Public Health because it refused to list both...

Case Filed: 10/28/2011

Court: Supreme Court of Connecticut

Decision: Victory

  • Marriage, Relationships and Family Protections
  • Connecticut
Closed Case

Mongerson v. Mongerson

(Amicus) Custody case arguing that restricting ‘exposure’ to the gay friends of a parent on the sole basis of their...

Case Filed: 10/28/2011

Court: Georgia Supreme Court

  • Marriage, Relationships and Family Protections
  • Georgia
Closed Case

Matter of the Estate of Ranftle v. Leiby

Case defending a man’s right to the estate of his deceased spouse with New York’s long-standing law respecting out-of-state marriages...

Case Filed: 10/28/2011

Court:

  • Marriage, Relationships and Family Protections
  • Seniors
  • New York
Closed Case

Moses v. King

Case arguing to return primary custody of a child to mother after she lost it because she is a lesbian

Case Filed: 10/28/2011

Court: Georgia Supreme Court

  • Marriage, Relationships and Family Protections
  • Georgia
Landmark Case

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

  • Marriage, Relationships and Family Protections
  • New Jersey
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

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

  • Anti-LGBTQ+ Rulings, Laws and Amendments
  • Immigration and Asylum
  • Marriage, Relationships and Family Protections
  • New York
Closed Approximate Case

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

  • Anti-LGBTQ+ Rulings, Laws and Amendments
  • Marriage, Relationships and Family Protections
  • Ohio
Closed Case

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

  • Marriage, Relationships and Family Protections
  • Michigan
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

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:

  • Marriage, Relationships and Family Protections
  • Religious Exemptions
  • Youth in Out-of-Home Care
  • Illinois