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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

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 and Rights in the Workplace
  • Health Care Fairness
  • Transgender and Nonbinary Rights
  • Oregon
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 Fairness
  • Florida
Closed Case

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-LGBTQ+ Rulings, Laws and Amendments
  • Employment and Rights in the Workplace
  • Health Care Fairness
  • Marriage, Relationships and 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 Fairness
  • Marriage, Relationships and 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 Fairness
  • Marriage, Relationships and 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 Fairness
  • HIV
  • Maine
Closed Case

Doe v. Mutual of Omaha Insurance Company

Case arguing against a health insurance provider’s limiting policies for clients living with HIV

Case Filed: 01/01/1998

Court:

  • Health Care Fairness
  • HIV
  • Illinois
Closed Case

Galanty v. Paul Revere Life Insurance Company

Case arguing against an insurance company’s denial of benefits to a client living with HIV

Case Filed: 03/01/1996

Court: California Court of Appeal

  • Health Care Fairness
  • HIV
  • California