Skip to Main Content

Need help understanding your rights as an LGBTQ+ person or someone living with HIV? Visit our virtual Help Desk.

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.

Reset Filter

Showing 15 of 339 results

Active Case

County of Santa Clara v. HHS

Lambda Legal, Americans United for Separation of Church and State and the Center for Reproductive Rights filed a lawsuit challenging...

Case Filed: 05/28/2019

Court: U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

  • Anti-LGBTQ+ Rulings, Laws and Amendments
  • Health Care Fairness
  • Religious Exemptions
  • Transgender and Nonbinary Rights
  • California
Active Case

Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc. v. United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)

Lambda Legal filed a federal lawsuit to compel the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to release information...

Case Filed: 05/22/2019

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

  • Fair Courts
  • New York
Active Case

Gore v. Lee

Lambda Legal filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of four transgender Tennesseeans seeking to allow transgender individuals to correct the...

Case Filed: 04/22/2019

Court: U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee

  • Anti-LGBTQ+ Rulings, Laws and Amendments
  • Transgender and Nonbinary Rights
  • Tennessee
Closed Case

Edmo v. Idaho Department of Correction, et al.

Lambda Legal, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), and the law firm WilmerHale filed a friend-of-the-court brief in support of...

Case Filed: 04/11/2019

Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

  • Criminal Legal System and Police Misconduct
  • Transgender and Nonbinary Rights
  • Idaho
Active Case

Kadel v. Folwell

Lambda Legal and Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund (TLDEF) filed a federal lawsuit against North Carolina officials for discrimination...

Case Filed: 03/08/2019

Court: United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina

  • Anti-LGBTQ+ Rulings, Laws and Amendments
  • Health Care Fairness
  • Transgender and Nonbinary Rights
  • North Carolina
Active Case

Colosimo v. Berryhill

Lambda Legal filed a motion on behalf of a 75-year-old gay man arguing that the Social Security Administration’s denial of...

Case Filed: 01/16/2019

Court: U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina

  • Anti-LGBTQ+ Rulings, Laws and Amendments
  • Marriage, Relationships and Family Protections
  • Seniors
  • North Carolina
Active Case

Lucas v. Chalk

Lambda Legal, Just Detention International (JDI), and the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) filed a friend-of-the-court brief on behalf of...

Case Filed: 01/14/2019

Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

  • Anti-LGBTQ+ Rulings, Laws and Amendments
  • Criminal Legal System and Police Misconduct
  • Fair Courts
  • Tennessee
Active Case

Roe and Voe v. Austin (formerly v. Esper and at filing v. Shanahan)

Lambda Legal, Modern Military Association of America (MMAA), with partner law firm Winston & Strawn, filed a lawsuit on behalf...

Case Filed: 12/19/2018

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

  • Anti-LGBTQ+ Rulings, Laws and Amendments
  • HIV
  • Virginia
Active Case

Deese & Doe v. Austin (formerly v. Esper)

Lambda Legal and Modern Military Association of America (MMAA) filed a lawsuit on behalf of Kevin Deese and John Doe...

Case Filed: 12/12/2018

Court: U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, Northern Division

  • Anti-LGBTQ+ Rulings, Laws and Amendments
  • HIV
  • Maryland
Active Case

Gonzales v. Berryhill

Lambda Legal filed a motion on behalf of a 63-year-old gay man arguing that the Social Security Administration’s denial of...

Case Filed: 12/12/2018

Court: U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico

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

Eller v. Prince George’s County Public Schools

Lambda Legal joined Arnold & Porter in a lawsuit filed against the Prince George’s County Public Schools and Board of...

Case Filed: 12/10/2018

Court: U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

  • Employment and Rights in the Workplace
  • Transgender and Nonbinary Rights
  • Maryland
Landmark Case

Ely v. Saul (formerly Ely v. Berryhill)

A lawsuit against the U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA) on behalf of a 65-year-old gay man seeking spousal survivor’s benefits...

Case Filed: 11/20/2018

Court: U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Decision: Landmark Case

  • Anti-LGBTQ+ Rulings, Laws and Amendments
  • Marriage, Relationships and Family Protections
  • Seniors
  • Arizona
Active Case

Southern Poverty Law Center and Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc. v. United States Department of Justice and Federal Bureau of Prisons

Lambda Legal and the Southern Poverty Law Center filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with the Department of...

Case Filed: 11/19/2018

Court: U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

  • Criminal Legal System and Police Misconduct
  • Transgender and Nonbinary Rights
Active Case

Dorn v. Michigan Department of Corrections, et al.

On November 12, 2018, Lambda Legal and Michigan Protection & Advocacy Service announced the successful settlement of a 2015 lawsuit...

Case Filed: 10/31/2018

Court: Western District of Michigan

  • Criminal Legal System and Police Misconduct
  • HIV
  • Michigan
Active Case

Foster v. Andersen

Lambda Legal filed a federal lawsuit challenging Kansas’ refusal to correct the gender marker on birth certificates for transgender individuals....

Case Filed: 10/11/2018

Court: U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas

  • Transgender and Nonbinary Rights
  • Kansas