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Lambda Legal (abbreviation of Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund , English for Lambda Foundation for legal assistance and educational work) is an American civil rights organization that uses model trials, education and public relations work for the interests of gays , lesbians , bisexuals , transgender and HIV - The sick.
Registration as a not-for-profit organization was originally scheduled for 1971, but New York judges denied the application on the grounds that the Fund's proposed activities were contrary to public morals. That order was overturned in 1973 in a New York State Court of Appeal ruling (In re Thom, 301 NE2d 542 (NY 1973).). The organization's headquarters are still in New York City , but today there are regional offices in Atlanta , Georgia , Chicago , Illinois , Dallas , Texas, and Los Angeles , California . The current chairman of the foundation is Kevin M. Cathcart.
Lambda Legal has played a role in a number of American legal cases involving gay rights. They were also in the majority decision (6 to 3) the US Supreme Court in the case v Lawrence. Texas involved in 2003, which repealed the so-called Sodomy Laws (criminal liability for homosexual intercourse).
Lambda Legal does the legal work primarily by conducting model lawsuits selected according to the likelihood with which they can create a precedent that will positively affect the rights of gays, lesbians, bisexuals, transgender people and those living with HIV. The lawyers at Lambda Legal work on a very wide range of litigation topics; their average litigation list consistently contains over 50 cases.
The organization also maintains a national network of volunteer lawyers, which increases the scope of legal work and enables lawyers, legal advisors and law students to join the program through their work at Lambda Legal.
Lambda Legal pursues litigation across the country and in every area of law that affects the groups represented, for example discrimination in the workplace, housing, housing and the military, as well as discrimination and political issues related to HIV and AIDS , family law, equal marriage including the associated benefits, immigration issues, anti-gay initiatives and the right to freedom of expression and equal legal protection of their rights.