Recent Victories
All year long, Lambda Legal wins legal victories for LGBT people and people with HIV who seek full and equal rights—on the job, as parents and couples, in health care, school, our communities and in all aspects of our lives.
Below are case summaries for our recent legal victories.
Historic case that overturned all remaining state sodomy laws in the United States
Case arguing against a residential center's withholding of prescription hormone medication and punishment of gender expression for a transgender woman
Amicus brief in support of University of California Hastings Law School policy requiring publicly funded student groups to accept "all comers."
Case in California arguing that businesses that extend benefits to married couples must also extend them on an equal basis to registered domestic partners
Case arguing for joint adoption by same-sex couples
Case arguing to protect the rights of gay and lesbian parents to be fully recognized as such, even if they are not biologically related to their children
University's domestic partner benefits program threatened by antigay group and legislator
Landmark case that struck down a Colorado voter initiative that would have stripped lesbians and gay men of civil rights protection.
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.
Groundbreaking case arguing against Cirque du Soleil's decision to fire an employee because of his HIV status
Case that won the right for same-sex couples to marry in Iowa
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