Amicus Briefs
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Through its litigation initiatives, Legal Momentum has made historic and enduring contributions to the rights and opportunities available to women. This is often accomplished through participation in cases as amicus curiae ("friend of the court"). Amici are groups or individuals who are not parties to the case but have particular expertise in the issues at its heart. They bring their expertise to the court in the form of an amicus brief to inform the court’s deliberations. Each year Legal Momentum writes and joins numerous amicus briefs in cases dealing with issues central to our mission.
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Reproductive RightsAuthored Amicus Brief: Concerning the Alabama COVID-19 Executive Order severely restricting abortion access under the guise of restricting non-emergency medical services.
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Reproductive RightsJoined Amicus Brief: Concerning the Constitutionality of Louisiana state law, Act 620, requiring that a physician providing abortions hold active admitting privileges at a hospital located within thirty miles.
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Workplace Equality and Economic EmpowermentReproductive Rights | Public Benefits and PovertyJoined Amicus Brief: Concerning employers with a religious or moral objection from complying with the Affordable Care Act’s requirement to provide coverage for comprehensive preventive health care services.
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Workplace Equality and Economic EmpowermentReproductive RightsJoined Amicus Brief: At question was whether religious non-profits with an objection to providing contraception to women should have to actively opt out of doing so.
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Workplace Equality and Economic EmpowermentReproductive RightsJoined Amicus Brief: Determined whether non-profit organizations that have religious objections to contraception have the right to exclude coverage of contraception in their group health insurance plans.
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Fairness in the CourtsReproductive RightsAuthored Amicus Brief: Determined the constitutionality of a law requiring parental notice for minor's abortion, where the law has no exception for medical emergencies.
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Workplace Equality and Economic EmpowermentReproductive RightsJoined Amicus Brief: Determined whether an employer violates federal anti-discrimination law (Title VII) by excluding contraceptives from a prescription drug plan that covers other prescriptions.
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Reproductive Rights | Anti-Choice ViolenceAuthored Amicus Brief: Determined the Constitutionality under the First Amendment of a Massachusetts state law that protected persons near reproductive health care facilities from unwanted approaches closer than six feet.
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Reproductive Rights | Parental RightsAuthored Amicus Brief: Determined whether it is constitutional to impose a requirement that an individual not procreate as a condition of probation, where violation of the condition would subject the person to imprisonment.
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Reproductive Rights | Public Benefits and PovertyAuthored Amicus Brief: Determined the constitutionality of a state regulation that denied Medicaid coverage of medically necessary or therapeutic abortions except in cases where the pregnancy was life threatening or resulted from rape or incest.
