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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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 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
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
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
Case arguing federal discrimination after a woman has job offer rescinded because she is transgender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
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
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
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
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
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
Amicus brief filed in support of case challenging the Crime Against Nature by Solicitation (“CANS”) law.
Case Filed: 10/28/2011
Court:
(Amicus) Case arguing that Children’s Services must provide a transgender youth sex reassignment treatment if it is found medically necessary
Case Filed: 10/28/2011
Court: New York Supreme Court
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
Case filed in an attempt by plaintiffs to undermine Lambda Legal’s Maryland Court of Appeals victory inDoe v. Montgomery County...
Case Filed: 09/25/2008
Court: Montgomery County Circuit Court
Federal lawsuit filed on behalf of a transgender woman fired from her job as a Legislative Editor after she stated...
Case Filed: 07/22/2008
Court: United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia
Decision: Landmark Case
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