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Ending the School-to-Prison Pipeline
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 Hayley Gorenberg
Deputy Legal Director
The arc of the moral universe may bend towards justice, but it doesn't bend on its own. To secure the gains this country has made requires constant vigilance, not complacency. Whether it's by challenging those who erect new barriers to the vote or ensuring that the scales of justice work equally for all in the criminal justice system and not simply a pipeline from underfunded schools to overcrowded jails... it requires vigilance.
—President Barack Obama, August 28, 2013
The words rang out over the thousands of us assembled last month before the Lincoln Memorial to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech. Lambda Legal had been provided one “gold ticket” from the White House, and rain or shine (the weather did both that day), I was honored to represent us. Now, the President himself had called out a deeply damaging dynamic we are working to address: the so-called “school-to-prison pipeline.” I practically shouted out to answer from my seat.
As the oldest and largest national legal organization committed to achieving full recognition of the civil rights of LGBT people and people with HIV, Lambda Legal has focused for years on young peoples’ rights both in public schools and in state custody.
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Featured Briefs and Decisions
Harris et al. v. McDonnell et al.
Class action complaint filed by Lambda Legal, the ACLU and the ACLU of Virginia, seeking the freedom to marry for all same-sex couples in Virginia as well as an end to Virginia’s refusal to recognize marriages same-sex couples have legally entered elsewhere.
Gartner v. Newton
Unanimous Iowa Supreme Court decision ordering the Iowa Department of Public Health to issue an accurate two-parent birth certificate to all children born to lesbian married parents in Iowa.
Garden State Equality v. Dow
Motion for summary judgment in Lambda Legal’s New Jersey marriage case, reply brief and supplemental brief in support of the motion for summary judgment.
Darby v. Orr
Motion for summary judgment in Lambda Legal’s case seeking the freedom to marry in Illinois.
Minnesota v. Rick
The Minnesota Supreme Court upheld an appellate court decision overturning the conviction of Daniel James Rick, who is HIV positive, for the alleged criminal transmission of a communicable disease. Lambda Legal and the ACLU submitted an amicus brief in the case.
Appling v. Doyle
Lambda Legal’s brief on behalf of Fair Wisconsin and five same-sex couples, asking the Wisconsin Supreme Court to uphold the state's domestic partnership law as constitutional.
In re Marriage of J.B. and H.B. v. Texas
Amicus brief submitted by Lambda Legal and the ACLU of Texas, asking the Texas Supreme Court to overturn a ruling from the Fifth District Court of Appeals and allow two married same-sex couples to get divorced.
In the Matter of Anthony
Amicus brief by Lambda Legal and the Center for HIV Law & Policy, asking the Board of Immigration Appeals to overturn an immigration judge’s ruling denying a Jamaican immigrant’s application for deferral of removal to Jamaica under the U.N. Convention Against Torture.
Golinski v. Office of Personnel Management
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed the appeal of the District Court ruling in Lambda Legal’s challenge to Section 3 of the so-called Defense of Marriage Act.
Harris v. Millennium Hotel
Lambda Legal filed a notice of appeal with the Alaska Supreme Court in its challenge to Alaska’s exclusion of same-sex couples from survivor benefits.
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