In a petition to the U.S. Supreme Court, Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund is asking it to rule that an existing federal law prohibits employers from discriminating against employees based on sexual orientation.

If the court takes the case, the outcome – no matter what it is – would likely have profound implications for LGBT people in employment, education, housing, and other arenas. And if victorious, the Lambda Legal case could also achieve a legislative goal that has been a priority for the national LGBT civil rights movement for more than 40 years.

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Joining Lambda Legal staff on the petition to the Supreme Court are two national legal luminaries from Stanford University: Jeffrey Fisher, who has been identified as having the third most experience arguing before the Supreme Court (out of 17,000 advocates) and Pamela Karlan, a lesbian who is a litigator and who has often been said to be on the “short list” of some Democratic presidents as a potential Supreme Court nominee.