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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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Active Case

Lawrence v. Office of Personnel Management

Case on behalf of a transgender man discriminated against by his federal employer because it denied health care coverage.

Case Filed: 09/15/2015

Court:

  • Health Care Fairness
  • Seniors
  • Transgender and Nonbinary Rights
  • Florida
Closed Case

Passion Star a/k/a Zollicoffer v. Livingston

Lambda Legal filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of Passion Star (legal name: Zollicoffer), a transgender woman currently in the...

Case Filed: 10/23/2014

Court: United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas

Decision: Victory

  • Criminal Legal System and Police Misconduct
  • Racial Justice and Low-Income Advocacy
  • Transgender and Nonbinary Rights
  • Texas
Closed Approximate Case

Taylor v. Lystila

Health care discrimination case involving a transgender woman who was refused transition-related medical care.

Case Filed: 04/16/2014

Court:

  • Health Care Fairness
  • Transgender and Nonbinary Rights
  • Illinois
Closed Case

People v. DeLee

Amicus brief filed with the New York Court of Appeals urging the reinstatement of the conviction of Dwight DeLee, found...

Case Filed: 10/07/2013

Court: New York Court of Appeals

  • Transgender and Nonbinary Rights
  • New York
Closed Case

McCreery v. Don’s Valley Market

Transgender employment discrimination case in which a transgender woman was fired after she told her boss she would be transitioning.

Case Filed: 09/24/2013

Court:

Decision: Victory

  • Employment and Rights in the Workplace
  • Transgender and Nonbinary Rights
  • South Dakota
Closed Case

Lopez Berera v. Holder

Amicus brief to the U.S. Court of Appeal for the Ninth Circuit in support of asylum protection for Karolina Lopez...

Case Filed: 04/20/2012

Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

  • Criminal Legal System and Police Misconduct
  • Health Care Fairness
  • HIV
  • Immigration and Asylum
  • Transgender and Nonbinary Rights
Closed Case

Logan v. Gary Community School Corporation

Case arguing in favor of a transgender high school student’s First Amendment right to wear a dress to prom.

Case Filed: 10/28/2011

Court: United States District Court for the Northern District of Indiana, Hammond

  • Transgender and Nonbinary Rights
  • Students' Rights
  • Indiana
Closed Case

Lopez v. River Oaks

Case arguing federal discrimination after a woman has job offer rescinded because she is transgender

Case Filed: 10/28/2011

Court: Federal Court of the Southern District of Texas

  • Employment and Rights in the Workplace
  • Transgender and Nonbinary Rights
  • Texas
Closed Case

Roach v. Roach n.k.a. Silverwolf

Case arguing to uphold alimony payments to a Transgender man

Case Filed: 10/28/2011

Court: Circuit Court of the 6th Judicial Circuit in and for Pinellas County, Florida

  • Transgender and Nonbinary Rights
  • Florida
Closed Case

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 Fairness
  • Transgender and Nonbinary Rights
  • New York
Closed Case

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: 10/28/2011

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

Decision: Victory

  • Health Care Fairness
  • Transgender and Nonbinary Rights
  • Wisconsin
Closed Case

Turner v. White

Case seeking access to legal proceedings for a name change and waiver of fees on behalf of transgender woman

Case Filed: 10/28/2011

Court: Illinois Supreme Court

  • Fair Courts
  • Transgender and Nonbinary Rights
  • Illinois
Closed Case

Gotti v. Raemisch

Case involving the right of transgender people in prison to receive appropriate medical treatment.

Case Filed: 10/28/2011

Court: United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin

  • Transgender and Nonbinary Rights
  • Wisconsin
Closed Case

Doe v. Jindal

Amicus brief filed in support of case challenging the Crime Against Nature by Solicitation (“CANS”) law.

Case Filed: 10/28/2011

Court:

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

L.P. v. Philadelphia, et al.

Case representing a transgender girl subjected to verbal and physical abuse because of her sexual orientation, gender identity, sex and...

Case Filed: 10/28/2011

Court: City of Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations

  • Transgender and Nonbinary Rights
  • Youth in Out-of-Home Care
  • Pennsylvania