Lambda Legal represents seven lesbian and gay state employees who are challenging a move by the Arizona Legislature to eliminate the equal health care benefits that those employees rely on to safeguard their families' health—just as their heterosexual colleagues do.
This past month, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued a most welcome clarification regarding the Affordable Care Act. It is hard to overstate the importance of this guidance.
More than 130 members of Congress—plus dozens of companies, unions, bar associations, legal scholars and historians—are urging the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to find the so-called Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional.
Prop 8 Trial Tracker's Scottie Thomaston analyzes the Justice Department's petitions to the U.S. Supreme Court to review two legal challenges to the so-called Defense of Marriage Act.
Arizona state employees can rest easy: Family coverage for their same-sex partners will remain in place until a court issues a final decision in Lambda Legal's case.
The U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal brought by the State of Wisconsin after Lambda Legal, the ACLU and the ACLU of Wisconsin successfully challenged a state law that prohibits medically necessary treatment for transgender people in prison.
When Melody Rose was diagnosed with gallbladder disease, she was referred to a doctor who refused to perform the necessary operation. The reason? She’s HIV-positive.