LAMBDA LEGAL ARCHIVE SITETHIS SITE IS NO LONGER MAINTAINED. TO SEE OUR MOST RECENT CASES AND NEWS, VISITNEW LAMBDALEGAL.ORG
Docket (Open Cases)
Help us make the case for equality.
DONATE NOW
Events
There are no upcoming events for your criteria.
A federal discrimination lawsuit was filed against the U.S. State Department on behalf of an intersex client, Dana Zzyym. Dana was denied a U.S. passport because they could not accurately choose either male or female on the passport application form, and the form does not provide any other gender marker designation.
Case on behalf of a transgender man discriminated against by his federal employer because it denied health care coverage.
Lambda Legal filed a federal lawsuit against the Commissioner of the Social Security Administration (SSA) on behalf of Dave Williams, a widower now living in Chicago, who was denied spousal benefits after the death of his husband, Carl Allen.
Lambda Legal filed suit against the Social Security Administration (SSA) on behalf of Kathy Murphy, a Texas widow denied spousal benefits after the death of her wife, and the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare (the National Committee), arguing that denying Social Security benefits to same-sex spouses because they live in states that discriminate against their marriages violates the U.S. Constitution.
Case representing a gay couple denied the ability to rent event space by an Iowa commercial business establishment.
Lambda Legal and the Center for HIV Law & Policy (CHLP), joined by eight other civil rights organizations, have submitted a friend-of-the-court brief asking the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) to overturn an immigration judge’s ruling denying a Jamaican immigrant’s application for deferral of removal to Jamaica under the U.N. Convention Against Torture (CAT).
A friend-of-the-court brief in which we argue that “ex-gay” therapy harms minors and urge a federal court to uphold a California law banning sexual orientation change efforts by state-licensed providers.
Case representing a lesbian couple denied accommodation at a Hawai'i commercial business establishment.
Case seeking regular visitation rights for a lesbian mother and the daughter she and her former partner had while in a Vermont civil union