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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Zawadski v. Brewer Funeral Services
Lambda Legal is suing a Picayune, MS, funeral home for denying services for Robert Huskey after finding out he was...
Case Filed: 05/01/2017
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Trinity Lutheran Church v. Pauley
Lambda Legal filed an amicus brief in a case before the U.S. Supreme Court concerning whether Missouri can enforce a...
Case Filed: 04/19/2017
Court: Supreme Court of the United States
F.V. v. Jeppesen (formerly F.V. v. Barron, F.V. v. Armstrong)
Lambda Legal filed a federal lawsuit challenging the State of Idaho’s refusal to allow transgender people to correct the gender...
Case Filed: 04/19/2017
Court: U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho
Decision: Victory
Arroyo v. Rosselló
Lambda Legal filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of three transgender Puerto Ricans and the LGBT rights organization Puerto Rico...
Case Filed: 04/07/2017
Court: United States District Court District of Puerto Rico
Decision: Victory
Barber v. Bryant
Lambda Legal joined Barber v. Bryant, the federal challenge to HB 1523, Mississippi’s discriminatory anti-LGBT legislation, which was brought by...
Case Filed: 04/03/2017
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Conforti v. St. Joseph’s Healthcare System
Lambda Legal filed a federal lawsuit against St. Joseph’s Healthcare in Paterson, New Jersey, after the hospital refused to allow...
Case Filed: 01/05/2017
Court: United States District Court for the District of New Jersey
Evancho v. Pine-Richland School District
In October 2016, Lambda Legal filed a lawsuit on behalf of Juliet Evancho, Elissa Ridenour and A.S. against the Pine-Richland...
Case Filed: 11/18/2016
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Decision: Victory
Hicklin v. Precythe (formerly Hicklin v. Lombardi)
Lambda Legal filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of Jessica Hicklin, a 37-year-old transgender woman incarcerated at the Potosi Correctional Center, a...
Case Filed: 08/22/2016
Court: United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri
Birchfield v. Armstrong
After more than 40 years together, Hal Birchfield and James Merrick Smith traveled to New York in October 2012 and...
Case Filed: 08/15/2016
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Wetzel v. Glen St. Andrew Living Community
In a groundbreaking decision, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a landlord may be held liable under the...
Case Filed: 07/26/2016
Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
In Re Feldhaus
Case appealing a trial court decision denying a transgender man’s name change petition.
Case Filed: 06/09/2016
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Decision: Victory
Brooke S.B. v. Elizabeth C.C.
Lambda Legal represented Brooke S.B. in her effort to continue to parent the six-year-old son she and her former partner,...
Case Filed: 06/02/2016
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Decision: Victory
Oliver v. The Barbershop
Lambda Legal has brought this lawsuit to enforce California’s paramount interest in nondiscrimination and to make clear that freedom of...
Case Filed: 05/25/2016
Court: Superior Court of the State of California for the County of San Bernardino
Carcaño v. Cooper (formerly Carcaño v. McCrory)
Lambda Legal, the American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU of North Carolina and Equality North Carolina filed a lawsuit challenging North...
Case Filed: 03/29/2016
Court: United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina
Zubik v. Burwell
Lambda Legal filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the U.S. Supreme Court urging the Court to reject arguments made by religiously...
Case Filed: 02/24/2016
Court: United States Supreme Court