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Stewart v. Cherokee County, GA

1:07-cv-00015 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: Jan. 4, 2007

Closed Date: 2007

On January 4, 2007, plaintiffs, the owner and operator of multiple rental units and unnamed tenants, filed suit against Cherokee County, Georgia in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia to challenge County Ordinance No. 2006-003 which purported to establish penalties for "the harboring of illegal aliens" in the County. The Ordinance was similar to others recently passed by cities seeking to expel undocumented immigrants from their boundaries. Immediately following the f…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Sundstrom and Fields v. Frank

2:06-cv-00112 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin

Filed Date: Jan. 24, 2006

Closed Date: May 23, 2012

On January 24, 2006, two transgender state prisoners in various Wisconsin prisons filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Division. Represented by the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc., the ACLU Foundation, Inc., the ACLU of Wisconsin Foundation, Inc., and private counsel, Plaintiffs brought this lawsuit against various officials from the Wisconsin Department of Corrections (WDC) and staff from the various state prisons. Plaintif…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
In re Marriage Cases

04-04365 | California state trial court

Filed Date: 2004

Closed Date: 2008

In 2004, the Mayor of the City of San Francisco ("City") directed the city clerk to alter forms and documents required for the issuance of marriage licenses so that they could be used by same-sex couples, and then to issue such licenses. The Attorney General of California and opponents of same-sex marriage filed writ petitions to enjoin this action and enforce then-current Family Code provisions defining marriage as between one man and one woman. The City and groups of same-sex couples filed va…
POLICING
Calhoun v. Pennington

1:09-cv-03286 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: Nov. 24, 2009

On November 24, 2009, patrons of Atlanta Eagle, a gay bar in Atlanta, Georgia, filed this lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the City of Atlanta, the chief of police, and officers of the Atlanta Police Department in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, Atlanta Division. The plaintiffs, represented by private lawyer Dan Grossman, and public interest lawyers from Lambda Legal Defense and the Southern Center for Human Rights, asked the Court for damages and declaratory…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Gotti v. Raemisch

2:07-cv-00928 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin

Filed Date: Oct. 17, 2007

Closed Date: 2010

On October 17, 2007, Plaintiffs, three transgender women at a Wisconsin Department of Corrections ("DOC") facility who had been diagnosed with Gender Identity Disorder ("GID"), filed a civil rights action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Division. This case is related to Sundstrom v. Frank.   Represented by attorneys from the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc., and the ACLU Foundation, Inc., the Plaintiffs named employ…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Golinski v. U.S. Office of Personnel Management

3:10-cv-00257 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Jan. 20, 2010

Closed Date: 2013

On January 20, 2010, an employee of the federal judiciary married to her same-sex partner under California law filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, San Francisco Division, under the Declaratory Judgment Act, 28 U.S.C. §§ 2201-2202, and the Administrative Procedure Act, 5 U.S.C. §§ 701-706, against the federal Office of Personnel Management (OPM). The plaintiff, represented by private counsel and Lambda Legal, asked the court for declaratory and inj…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Lazaro v. Orr

12CH19718 and 12CH19719 | Illinois state trial court

Filed Date: May 30, 2012

Closed Date: Dec. 17, 2013

On May 30, 2012, several same sex couples filed this lawsuit against the Cook County Clerk in the Cook County Circuit Court, Chancery Division challenging the constitutionality of the Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act ("IMDMA"). The plaintiffs sought declaratory and injunctive relief, claiming that IMDMA violates their rights to equal protection, due process, their right to be free from gender discrimination, and their right to privacy. On June 21, 2012, the Illinois Attorney Ge…
EDUCATION
Matter of North Syracuse Cent. School Dist. v. New York State Div. of Human Rights

09-07473 | New York state trial court

Filed Date: 2009

This case was filed in the Supreme Court of New York in the late 2000s on behalf of students in public schools who were subjected to discrimination and harassment. They claimed that under New York's Human Rights Law (Executive Law § 290, et seq.), it was the schools' responsibility to stop this discrimination.The defendants, two New York school districts, claimed that because they were public schools, as opposed to private, non-secular schools, they did not fall within the scope of the legislat…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Diaz v. Brewer

2:09-cv-02402 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: Nov. 17, 2009

Closed Date: 2015

On November 17, 2009, several lesbian and gay employees of the State of Arizona, each of whom was receiving family coverage for his or her committed same-sex life partner, filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona against the State of Arizona. Plaintiffs, represented by the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund and by private counsel, brought suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, alleging that Section 38-651(O) of the Arizona Revised Statutes ("Section O") violated the Uni…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Citizens for Equal Protection v. Bruning

4:03-cv-03155 | U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska

Filed Date: April 30, 2003

Closed Date: 2007

On April 30, 2003, LGBT advocacy organizations, represented by Lambda Legal and the ACLU, filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska, against the Attorney General of Nebraska challenging the federal constitutionality of Article I, Section 29 of the Nebraska Constitution. Section 29 prohibits government recognition of the "uniting of two persons of the same sex in a civil union, domestic partnership, or other similar same-sex relationship." The plaintiffs sought to …