LGBT & AIDS Project Case Profiles
(Active Cases | Concluded Cases)
Active Cases
RELATIONSHIPS
Appling v. Doyle: Defending Wisconsin domestic partnerships
Bassett v. Snyder: Challenge to discriminatory domestic partner benefits law
Donaldson and Guggenheim v. Montana: Fighting for relationship protections in a state with a marriage ban
Glossip v. Missouri Department of Transportation and Highway Patrol Employees' Retirement System: Survivor Benefits for Domestic Partners
Lazaro and Mayos v. Orr: Freedom to Marry in Illinois
Prop 8 Case (Hollingsworth v. Perry): Federal challenge to Proposition 8
Schmidt and Schuh v. Alaska: Same-sex couples challenge Alaska’s discriminatory tax law
Windsor v. United States: Challenging the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA)
PARENTING
Fisher-Borne v. Smith: A lawsuit on behalf of six same-sex couples seeking to obtain second-parent adoptions for their children
Gartner v. Iowa Department of Public Health: A challenge to Iowa's refusal to list the wives of biological mothers on their children's birth certificates
HIV/AIDS
ACLU of Massachusetts v. Kathleen Sebelius et al.: Challenging the Department of Health and Human Services' annual financial grant to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops for services to trafficking victims because the USCCB refuses to provide or refer for contraceptive services that could prevent the spread of HIV
Henderson et al. v. Thomas et al.: Challenging the segregation and restriction of inmates with HIV
TSA HIV Discrimination: HIV employment discrimination by the Transportation Security Administration
DISCRIMINATION
Baker and Linsley v. Wildflower Inn: Lesbian couple challenges Vermont inn’s illegal public accommodations discrimination
Collins v. United States: Challenge to military separation-pay discrimination
Keeton v. Anderson-Wiley: A counseling student seeks to be reinstated in her program after insisting on her right to counsel LGB clients that being gay is immoral
Ward v. Wilbanks: Challenging a counseling student's discrimination against LGB clients
TRANSGENDER
Fields v. Smith: Transgender inmates barred from medical treatment
K.L. v. State of Alaska: Allowing transgender individuals to correct the gender marker on their driver’s licenses without undergoing major surgery
YOUTH & SCHOOLS
A.W. and C.W. v. Davis County School District: Challenging the removal of a book about a family with same-sex parents from a school district's libraries
Don't Filter Me: Web Content Filtering In Schools: Preventing viewpoint-discriminatory censorship of positive LGBT web content in public schools
Concluded Cases
RELATIONSHIPS
Advocacy Encourages H&R Block to Accommodate Gay Couples in Civil Unions
Alaska CLU v. State of Alaska: State employee domestic partner benefits
Challenge to Florida's Anti-Gay Relationship Initiative: Relationship protections for same-sex couples
Citizens For Equal Protection v. Bruning: Nebraska marriage amendment challenge
Deane & Polyak v. Conaway: Maryland marriage lawsuit
Domestic Partnership Advocacy on Behalf of Konica Minolta Employee
Dunnum v. Wisconsin: State employee domestic partner benefits
Fresno Hospital Discrimination: Lesbian barred from visiting partner
Levitt & Dakota v. New Mexico Retiree Health Authority: State employee domestic partner benefits
Li & Kennedy v. Oregon: Oregon marriage lawsuit
In re Marriage Cases: The case that won marriage in California
Salt Lake City Domestic Partnerships: City employee same-sex partner benefits
Samuels & Gallagher v. New York: New York marriage lawsuit
Snetsinger v. Montana University: University employee domestic partner benefits
Strauss v. Horton: Challenge to California's Prop. 8
Wiessmann v. State College Area School District: Challenge to discriminatory domestic partner benefits policy
PARENTING
Burch v. Smarr: West Virginia child custody
Chandler v. Barker: Appeal of a "paramour" restriction on custody rights in Tennessee
Cole v. Arkansas: Challenge to Arkansas parenting ban for unmarried couples
In re: Gill: Challenge to Florida anti-gay adoption ban
In re: Hadaway: Georgia custody/adoption denial
Howard v. Arkansas: Arkansas foster care ban
Johnston v. MO Dept. of Social Services: Missouri foster care denial
Maniaci v. Kulstad: De-facto parenting case in Montana
DISCRIMINATION
Advocacy on Behalf of Gay Men Verbally Abused by McDonald's Staff
Christian Legal Society V. Martinez: Student club required to comply with the university's non-discrimination policy
Cooley v. Forrest County Sheriff’s Department: Employment Discrimination by Mississippi Sheriff's office
Exodus Parody: Defense of blogger's free speech
Johnson v. Johnson: Texas prison abuse
Limon v. Kansas: Kansas prison sentencing discrimination
TRANSGENDER
Hispanic AIDS Forum v. Bruno: New York transgender discrimination
Kirk v. Arnold: Challenge to Illinois law denying transgender people accurate birth certificates
In re Rockefeller: New York denial of name change for transgender man
Lovo-Lara Visa Petition: Immigration visa petition of transgender spouse
Schroer v. Library of Congress: Federal hiring discrimination by the Library of Congress
Seals v. Old Dominion Freight Lines, Inc.: Hiring discrimination
YOUTH & SCHOOLS
Boyd High GSA v. Boyd Co. Board of Education: Kentucky high school gay-straight alliance
Franks v. Metropolitan Board of Public Education: Access to pro-LGBT sites blocked.
Fulton, Mississippi Prom Discrimination: School refuses to allow same-sex date at prom.
Gillman v. Holmes County School District: Florida student free speech
Gonzalez v. School Board of Okeechobee County: Florida high school gay-straight alliance
Laccone v. I.C. Norcom High School: Virginia student free speech
Morrison v. Boyd County Board of Education: Kentucky high school anti-harassment training
Myers v. Thornsberry: Webb City, MO t-shirt censorship
Nguon v. Wolf: Orange County, CA student harassment
Ohio School Censorship: Dublin, OH t-shirt censorship
Outing at Hollis F. Price Middle College High School: Outing of a male couple at a Memphis, TN, public high school
Paramo v. Kern High School District: East Bakersfield, CA student newspaper censorship
PFLAG v. Camdenton R-III School District: Fighting unconstitutional censorship of LGBT-supportive websites by a Missouri school
PRIDE v. White County School District: Defense of Cleveland, Georgia gay-straight alliance
Ramona, CA Harvey Milk Censorship: School censors student's project on Harvey Milk
R.G., et al. v. Koller, et al.: Hawai'i youth correctional facility anti-gay harassment
Russellville, Alabama School Prom Discrimination: School refuses to allow same-sex date at prom.
Sturgis v. Copiah County School District: Mississippi school refuses to allow student to wear a tuxedo for her yearbook photo.
Stop Anti-Gay Bullying: Seth's Story: Seth Walsh and Bullying in Schools
HIV/AIDS
HIV Discrimination by Puerto Rico Cosmetology School: Cosmetology School Prohibits Student from Enrolling Because of HIV Status
Challenge to Change in New York HIV Testing Policy
Couture v. Belle Bonfils: Colorado HIV employment discrimination
Doe v. A Nebraska Restaurant: HIV employment discrimination
Doe v. Clinton: HIV employment discrimination by the U.S. State Department
Dugas v. Arkansas Board of Cosmetology: Cosmetology school dismissal HIV+ student
