Violence Against Women and Girls
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Determined the definition of extreme cruelty under the VAWA provision that protects immigrant victims from deportation and return to their abuser.
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Determined the statute of limitations on sexual abuse tort and discovery rule due to childhood trauma in Ohio.
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Determined whether it was proper for a court to hold the victim of domestic violence in contempt of a court order issued to protect her when she reunited with her abuser.
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Determined whether the prosecution of a domestic violence victim for murdering her husband was impermissibly tainted by the prosecution's baseless suggestions that she worked as a prostitute.
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Determined whether a defendant forfeits the Sixth Amendment Confrontation Clause right where defendant’s wrongful act caused witness’s unavailability.
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Determined the constitutionality of Arizona's controversial immigration law, Senate Bill 1070 (S.B. 1070).
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Determined the use of the discovery rule to extend the statute of limitations in childhood incest cases.
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Challenged President Trump’s Executive Order 13780, which placed limits on travel to the U.S. from Chad, Iran, Libya, North Korea, Somalia, Syria, Venezuela, and Yemen.
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Addressed the constitutionality of the Violence Against Women Act civil rights remedy. The decision was overruled, in part, by the Supreme Court's decision in U.S. v. Morrison.
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Determined the right to sue a parish priest and diocese for sexual misconduct and demand civil remedies under VAWA.
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Legal Momentum, the National Crime Victim Law Institute and pro bono counsel Covington & Burling, filed an amicus brief in the New York Supreme Court’s Appellate Division, First Department. This brief is in support of a sexual assault survivor and her right to anonymity in the civil court she brought a suit against her perpetrator in. This case invokes the New York Civil Rights Law § 50-b, which creates a statutory right for victims to file civil cases under a pseudonym by prohibiting the identification of victims in public documents.
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Determined whether the District of Columbia's gun control laws banning private possession of handguns violate the Second Amendment.
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