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
WLG Joint Statement on Dobbs Decision
Organizations of Women Lawyers’ Joint Statement Condemning the U.S. Supreme Court Decision and Underlying Reasoning in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Contacts: Cory M. Amron, President, Women Lawyers On Guard Inc. camron@womenlawyersonguard.org Elaine Metlin, Chair,...
WLG joins Amicus Brief in Jane Roe v United States et al, Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals
Women Lawyers on Guard joins Amicus Brief Submitted to U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in in Jane Roe v United States et al April 27, 2022 — Women Lawyers On Guard is delighted to share the opinion in the case of Jane Roe (now Strickland) v United States...
WLG joins Amicus Brief Submitted on Behalf of Singer-Songwriter Kesha
Women Lawyers on Guard joins Amicus Brief on behalf of singer-songwriter Kesha April 22, 2022 — WLG joined an amicus brief on behalf of the singer-songwriter “Kesha” who has been sued for defamation by Dr. Luke, her former producer, who sexually abused her in 2005...
WLG joins Amicus Brief in Brown v. Arizona, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
Women Lawyers on Guard joins Amicus Brief Submitted to U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Brown v. Arizona April 4, 2022 — Women Lawyers on Guard joined the National Women's Law Center (NWLC) and 30 other advocacy organizations in filing an amicus brief...
Joint Amicus Brief Submitted to U.S. Supreme Court in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health
Organizations of Women Lawyers Defend Women’s Constitutional Abortion Rights in Joint Amicus Brief Submitted to U.S. Supreme Court in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Contacts: Elaine Metlin, Women Lawyers On Guard, emetlin@gmail.comKaren M. Richardson, National...
WLG files important abortion-rights amicus brief
WLG has filed its own amicus curiae brief in the Sixth Circuit case of Bristol Regional Women’s Center, P.C., v Slatery in support of the appellees, the clinics that successfully challenged Tennessee’s 48-hour statutory waiting period for abortions. [Brief HERE]....
WLG signs onto critical abortion Supreme Court brief
WLG signed onto an amicus brief that has just been filed in the Supreme Court in the case of June Medical Services LLC v. Gee. This is an exceedingly important reproductive rights case about a restrictive Louisiana anti-abortion law. It follows just three years on...
WLG Signs Onto Four “Public Charge” Amicus Briefs
Women Lawyers on Guard signed onto four amicus briefs on the subject of who is a "public charge," including La Clinica de la Raza v. Trump; State of California v. Department of Homeland Security; State of New York v. Department of Homeland Security, and Make the Road...