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 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...
WLG Joins Important Amicus Brief on Rape Reporting
Women Lawyers On Guard just signed onto an amicus brief in Kesterson v Kent State University, U.S. Court of Appeals, 6th Cir. At issue is who, at a University, a person who has been raped must report to before the school has liability. Kesterson was raped by her...
Preliminary Injunction Against Administration’s Contraceptive Rules: Amicus Brief Quoted
The judges in both the cases in California and Pennsylvania have issued preliminary injunctions against the administration's rules that would have enabled employers to opt out of providing insurance coverage of contraceptives. The amicus brief that WLG signed onto...
Women’s Constitutional Right to Contraception is Under Attack. WLG Signs onto Amicus Briefs in Two Important Cases
WLG signed onto Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and State of New Jersey v Donald J. Trump, et al., in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and The State of California, et al v Eric D. Hargan, in the US District Court for the Northern District...
WLG Joins Another Important Amicus Brief
Kollaritsch v. Michigan State Board of Trustees is a case in the 6th Circuit that presents a legal issue similar to that in the case of Weckhorst v. Kansas State University (in which we also joined the amicus brief): whether a university’s deliberate indifference to...
WLG, Inc. joins amicus brief in campus rape case
Women Lawyers On Guard, Inc. has joined an amicus brief in Weckhorst v. Kansas State University, currently pending before the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals. The case arises from the rape of two students. The university refused to investigate or otherwise address...
WLG Joins Amicus Brief to Support “Fair Share” and Reduce Wage Gap
Women Lawyers On Guard, Inc. has joined an amicus brief by the National Women's Law Center that highlights the importance of the fair share rule in reducing the wage gap and the importance of public employment and union advocacy for women in the workplace. The brief...