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 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...
Amicus Brief Joined by WLG Helps Sway Judge to Issue PI Against Contraceptive Restricting Rules
On December 6, 2017, Women Lawyers on Guard joined 16 professional, labor, and student associations in support of motion for a preliminary injunction in California v. Hargan to halt implementation of the Trump administration's Religious Exemption Rule and the Moral...
Women Lawyers On Guard Inc. Joins Cakeshop SCOTUS Brief
https://womenlawyersonguard.org/2017/10/women-lawyers-on-guard-inc-joins-cakeshop-scotus-brief/Today Women Lawyers on Guard Inc., along with 39 other organizations, signed on to a brief in the Supreme Court in support of the couple who sued Masterpiece Cakeshop, Ltd. in Colorado. The owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop had refused to bake a wedding cake for a gay...