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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
  • HIV
  • Maryland
Case Won

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
  • 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
  • HIV
  • Religious Exemptions
  • Wisconsin
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
  • Health Care
  • Arizona
Case Won

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
  • Trans Rights
  • New York
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
  • HIV
  • New Jersey
Case Won

In re John Carl

Case representing HIV positive man denied kidney transplant.

Case Filed: 10/28/2011

Court:

Decision: Victory

  • Health Care
  • HIV
  • Colorado
Case Won

Esquivel v. Oregon

Transgender rights case in which a state employee was denied insurance coverage for medically necessary surgery on the basis of...

Case Filed: 12/01/2010

Court:

Decision: Victory

  • Employment
  • Health Care
  • Trans Rights
  • Oregon
Closed Case

Langbehn v. Jackson Memorial Hospital

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

Case Filed: 06/01/2008

Court: District court for the southern district of florida

  • Health Care
  • Family Protections
  • Florida
Closed Approximate Case

Barros v. Riggall

Case arguing against a clinic’s policy of refusing fertility services to gay men

Case Filed: 09/01/2006

Court:

  • Health Care
  • Florida
Case Won

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: 01/01/2006

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

Decision: Victory

  • Health Care
  • Trans Rights
  • Wisconsin
Case Won

Brinkman v. Miami University, et al.

University’s domestic partner benefits program threatened by antigay group and legislator

Case Filed: 11/22/2005

Court: Ohio Court of Common Pleas

Decision: Victory

  • Anti-LGBT Policies
  • Employment
  • Health Care
  • Family Protections
  • Ohio
Closed Case

Flanigan v. University of Maryland Hospital System

Case challenging a hospital’s decision to keep a gay man from visiting his dying partner

Case Filed: 02/27/2002

Court:

  • Health Care
  • Family Protections
  • Maryland
Landmark Case

Benitez v. North Coast Women’s Care Medical Group

Case arguing that health care providers’ personal religious beliefs do not excuse discrimination against LGBT patients Issues

Case Filed: 07/01/2001

Court: California Supreme Court

Decision: Landmark Case

  • Health Care
  • Family Protections
  • Religious Exemptions
  • California
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
  • HIV
  • Maine