Publications & Resources

Our democracy relies on a judicial system that is non-ideological in order to ensure fairness and impartiality and make good on the constitutional promise of equal access to justice for all.

Two cases challenging discriminatory policies that limited survivor’s benefits to married couples and refused benefits to LGBTQ+ couples married less than nine months. 

Colín v. Orange Unified School District was a groundbreaking case arguing for the right of students to form a gay-straight alliance and to become a recognized student club. 

Join Counsel Omar Gonzalez-Pagan as he discusses Smith v. Avanti, a federal discrimination lawsuit Lambda Legal filed against a property owner in Colorado who violated the federal Fair Housing Act by refusing to rent a housing unit to a same-sex couple, one of whom is transgender, and their children because she worried their “uniqueness” would jeopardize her standing in the community.

In some of the most historic wins for everyone living with HIV in America of the past several decades, Lambda Legal took on the Pentagon, challenging its unjust policies preventing enlistment, deployment, or commissioning as an officer if a person is living with HIV.

Lambda Legal filed a lawsuit in Louisiana on behalf of Liam Pierce, a lifelong public servant, after the Iberia Parish Sheriff’s office rescinded a job offer as a Sheriff's Deputy because he is living with HIV.

On June 24, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization and overturned Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, cases that affirmed the right to access abortion.

In a groundbreaking 8-3 decision, the full Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation violates federal civil rights law.