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Calhoun v. Pennington
Case brought against the city of Atlanta, the chief of police and individual officers for illegally searching, detaining and harassing staff and patrons of a gay bar.
Cole v. Arkansas Department of Human Services
Amicus brief in support of challenge to Arkansas' Act 1, which prohibits unmarried individuals living with a sexual partner from adopting or fostering children.
In re John Carl
Case representing HIV positive man denied kidney transplant.
Caldwell v. SkyWest Airlines, Inc.; Delta Airlines, Inc.
Case winning equal travel benefits for spouses of lesbian and gay employees of SkyWest Airlines.
Matter of the Estate of Ranftle v. Leiby
Case defending a man's right to the estate of his deceased spouse with New York's long-standing law respecting out-of-state marriages of same-sex couples.
In re S.J.L. and J.K.L.
Case seeking custodial rights for a non-biological mother whose ex-partner used Ohio's constitutional amendment in an attempt to have her barred from seeing her children.
Cleveland Taxpayers v. Cleveland
Lawsuit brought by an antigay legal group attempting to strip away the City of Cleveland's newly enacted domestic partnership registry for same-sex couples and their families.
Mitchell v. Bremen Community High School District No. 228 and Gleason, et al.
Case arguing against the termination of a school superintendent because he is gay
Young v. Lingle
Case seeking civil unions for same-sex couples in Hawai`i.
People v. Allen
Case of a man who allegedly bit his neighbor and was charged with violating a Michigan bioterrorism statute based on the allegation that he has HIV.
Doe v. Reed
Lambda Legal, along with Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders (GLAD), the National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR), the Human Rights Campaign, the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, the State of Washington and others filed an amicus brief in defending open government laws requiring public disclosure of the names of voters who sign petitions supporting state ballot initiatives. In particular, this brief refutes the false claims presented to the Supreme Court in this and other cases that individuals who support anti-gay initiatives have been subjected to "systematic intimidation" by the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community.

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