Amicus Briefs
Women Lawyers On Guard files amicus briefs in strategic cases across the country that have the potential to shape future legal advocacy in key areas, including sexual harassment, gender and workplace equity, and women’s health and reproductive rights.
Issues Our Amicus Briefs Have Addressed
Discrimination, sexual assault and harassment
Title IX and Campus Sexual Assault
Women’s Health and Reproductive Rights
Mandatory Arbitration
Equal Rights Amendment
Other issues of particular impact on women
Louisiana v. FDA (Fifth Circuit) (Decision Pending as of July 2026)
Can states heavily restrict access to mifepristone, the most common drug used in medication abortions, by challenging the Food and Drug Administration’s (“FDA”) scientific determinations about mifepristone’s safety? In Louisiana v. Food and Drug Administration, the...
FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine (Supreme Court) (win) (decision in 2024)
In this landmark case, the Supreme Court evaluated whether a coalition of anti-abortion organizations could challenge the Food and Drug Administration’s (“FDA”) approval of mifepristone and efforts to expand access to it. The FDA approved mifepristone in 2000 after...
Sabatini v. Knouse (Massachusetts Court of Appeals) (win) (2025 and 2026)
Can survivors of sexual misconduct bring a counterclaim against an individual harasser after being sued for defamation for reporting the misconduct? Sabatini v. Knouse arose after David Sabatini, a tenured MIT professor and former Director of Laboratory Research and...
Idaho v. United States (9th Circuit) EMTALA case (loss) (decision March 2025)
When a pregnant woman encounters a medical emergency, can states prohibit doctors from performing abortions that are necessary to protect the patient’s health, as required by federal law? On remand from the Supreme Court, the Ninth Circuit considered whether Idaho’s...
Newton v. LVMH Moët Hennessy (2d Circuit) (Pending as of July 2026)
Can employers continue to force survivors of workplace sexual misconduct into private arbitration despite the passage of the Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act (“EFAA”) in 2022? The EFAA was enacted to ensure that survivors of sexual...
West Virginia v. BPJ and Little v. Hecox (Supreme Court)
The Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and Title IX are designed to protect individuals from sex-based discrimination. But what happens when a state passes a law that directly excludes students from participating in sports based on their gender...
Amicus Briefs – Censorship in New Hampshire
Would you want your child attending a school where the teachers were censored from speaking about "divisive concepts"? Who would get to define "divisive concepts?" How would teachers navigate exactly what that meant? Some teachers have just stopped speaking about...
WLG joins Amicus Brief in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard College and Students for Fair Admissions v. University of North Carolina
Women Lawyers on Guard joins Amicus Brief Submitted to U.S. Supreme Court in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard College and Students for Fair Admissions v. University of North Carolina August 02, 2022 — Women Lawyers On Guard is proud to join the...







