Amicus Briefs
For 45 years, Legal Momentum has made historic and enduring contributions to the rights and opportunities available to women through its litigation initiatives. Legal Momentum takes a select number of cases that raise significant issues affecting the rights of women and girls across the nation. If you think your case meets our criteria, please contact us at 212.925.6635 or at caseinquiries@legalmomentum.org.
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Determined whether the prosecution of battered woman for murdering her husband was impermissibly tainted by the prosecution's baseless suggestions that she worked as a prostitute.
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Considered whether denying same-sex couples the right to marry violated the individual liberty and equality safeguards of the Massachusetts Constitution, protecting freedom from unwarranted government intrusion into protected areas of life and freedom to partake in state benefits.
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Determined the constitutionality of affirmative action programs in publicly-funded schools and universities.
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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 whether a criminal statute against same-sex sexual relations violated constitutional rights of lesbians and gay men.
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Determined whether Nebraska, in passing law denying welfare benefits to a child because the child's family was already receiving welfare when the child was born, intended the law to apply to children whose parents were unable to work because of disability.
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Determined the constitutionality of enforcing the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) to the states, under Section 5 of the Fourteenth Amendment.
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Determined the constitutionality of New York State's anti-stalking statute.
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Determined the constitutionality of New Jersey's Child Exclusion law, which denies welfare benefits to children born to mothers already receiving welfare.
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Determined the right of abuse victim to leave work to obtain protection orders against an abuser.