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.
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
Case arguing for joint adoption by same-sex couples
Landmark case that struck down a Colorado voter initiative that would have stripped lesbians and gay men of civil rights protection.
University's domestic partner benefits program threatened by antigay group and legislator
Groundbreaking case arguing against Cirque du Soleil's decision to fire an employee because of his HIV status
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.
Case that won the right for same-sex couples to marry in Iowa
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.
Case arguing against a custody arrangement that is contingent on the children being blocked from seeing their HIV positive aunt
(Amicus) Case arguing against ban on any person who engages in same-sex sodomy from becoming a foster parent
Groundbreaking case arguing that schools have a responsibility to protect students from antigay verbal and physical abuse
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