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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Workplace Equality and Economic EmpowermentAuthored Amicus Brief: Determined the right of a female laborer to bring claims of sex discrimination for being forced by her employer to do the most menial work on a job site while being denied more lucrative opportunities
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Fairness in the CourtsSex-Based Classification | LGBTQ+ RightsAuthored Amicus Brief: Determined whether a landlord's eviction of an organization serving transgendered clients, after the organization refused landlord's demand to bar these clients from common areas of the building, including the entrance and the restrooms, constitutes sex discrimination under New York law.
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Violence Against Women and GirlsJoined Amicus Brief: Concerned a wife's right to her husband's pension upon divorce even if he lost his job due to a restraining order she obtained to protect herself against his abuse.
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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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Equal Educational Opportunities | Fairness in the CourtsAuthored Amicus Brief: Determined whether a person who is retaliated against for complaining of sex discrimination in federally-funded education programs may bring a lawsuit for damages under Title IX.
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Fairness in the CourtsLGBTQ+ RightsJoined Amicus Brief: Determined whether denying same-sex couples the right to marry violated the Oregon Constitution.
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Violence Against Women and GirlsImmigrationAuthored Amicus Brief: Concerned whether rape and attempted rape by a spouse can be considered "extreme cruelty" under VAWA's immigrant protection provisions.
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Anti-Choice ViolenceAuthored Amicus Brief: Determined the Constitutionality of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act (FACE) in light of the Supreme Court's decision in United States v. Morrison.
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Equal Educational OpportunitiesSex-Based ClassificationJoined Amicus Brief: Determined whether Title IX covers athletic associations that do not directly receive federal funding, but exercise significant control over federally funded school athletic programs.
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Fairness in the CourtsLGBTQ+ RightsJoined Amicus Brief: Determined whether it is a violation of equal protection to apply a hundred-year-old Massachusetts law that denies marriage to persons who could not legally marry in their home state to same-sex couples seeking to marry in Massachusetts.
