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NWLC works inside the courtroom to advance gender justice outside the courtroom, from litigating our own cases fighting sex discrimination to filing amicus briefs in others’ cases to protect and expand our rights, and to expand greater awareness of our legal protections that are on the line.

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NWLC Reacts to Supreme Court Overturning Affirmative Action

National Women’s Law Center Litigation Highlights – 2022

NWLC Joins Amicus Brief Supporting the Family of Henrietta Lacks in New Lawsuit

NWLC Joins Brief Defending Conviction of Harvey Weinstein

NWLC Submits Amicus Brief to Protect Access to Women’s Preventive Services Without Cost-Sharing

Women Truck Drivers File Class Action Charging Major Trucking Company with Gender Discrimination in Hiring and Training Practices

NWLC Joins Amicus Brief to Protect Indiana Minors’ Access to Gender-Affirming Health Care

NWLC Joins Amicus Brief Clarifying Graduate Students’ Legal Protections

NWLC Files Amicus Brief to Supreme Court on Sex and Race Discrimination in Job Transfers

NWLC Joins Amicus Brief Defending ADA Plaintiffs

NWLC Joins Amicus Brief to Protect Minors’ Access to Gender-Affirming Health Care

NWLC Filed Amicus Brief In Support of Individual Denied Emergency Contraception By Her Pharmacy to Minnesota Court of Appeals

NWLC Files Workplace Justice/Survivors’ Rights Amicus Brief in Washington State Court of Appeals

NWLC Urges Supreme Court in Groff to Revisit Standard for Employees’ Religious Accommodation Requests and Consider Harms to Others

NWLC Files Class Action Lawsuit Ensuring Fertility Benefits for LGBTQ People

NWLC Joins Amicus Urging 11th Circuit Not to Eviscerate Remedies Under Americans with Disabilities Act

NWLC Leads Amicus Brief Challenging Anti-Trans Sports Ban in West Virginia

NWLC Joins Amicus Urging Supreme Court to Continue Protecting Civil Rights Plaintiffs from True Threats

NWLC Joins Amicus to Protect Tenants Experiencing Sexual Harassment

Any Day Now, Extremist Trump-Appointed Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk Could End a Critical Abortion Option for People Nationwide

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NWLC Files Lawsuit Challenging Missouri State Abortion Bans That Violate Church-State Separation

NWLC Files Brief in Support of Student in Jane Doe v. University of Kentucky

NWLC Joins Amicus to Protect Student Athletes’ Access to Class Action Lawsuits: Anders v. CSU Fresno

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NWLC Joins Amicus Brief in Support of Survivor Employees’ Access to the Courts