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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

In the Matter of Brian (a.k.a. Mariah) L.

(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

  • Health Care
  • Trans Rights
  • Youth in Out-of-Home Care
  • New York
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

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Case arguing federal discrimination after a woman has job offer rescinded because she is transgender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

  • Trans 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
  • Trans Rights
  • New York
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
  • Health Care
  • Trans Rights
  • Oregon
Closed Case

Bloem v. Montgomery County Board of Elections

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

  • Trans Rights
  • Maryland
Landmark Case

Glenn v. Brumby et. al.

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

  • Employment
  • Trans Rights
  • Georgia
Closed Case

Doe et al. v. Montgomery County Board of Elections

Lawsuit challenging an illegal referendum petition that attempted to overturn a transgender antidiscrimination law in Montgomery County, Maryland.

Case Filed: 03/14/2008

Court: Maryland Court of Appeals

  • Trans Rights
  • Maryland
Closed Case

California Education Committee, LLC, et al. v. O’Connell

Case defending California’s antidiscrimination protections for students and hate crimes laws

Case Filed: 12/21/2007

Court:

  • Anti-LGBT Policies
  • Trans Rights
  • California
Closed Case

Etsitty v. Utah Transit Authority

(Amicus) Case arguing that a customer’s prejudices are not grounds to terminate transgender employees because of their appearance

Case Filed: 10/05/2005

Court: Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals

  • Employment
  • Trans Rights
  • Utah
Closed Case

Fischer v. New York

Case seeking transgender woman’s right to change her name and obtain proper identification

Case Filed: 01/01/2003

Court:

  • Trans Rights
  • New York
Landmark Case

Brandon v. Richardson County

Historic case arguing for a sheriff’s culpability for his acts in the murder of a transgender man

Case Filed: 04/01/2000

Court: Nebraska Supreme Court

Decision: Landmark Case

  • Trans Rights
  • Nebraska