The League of Women Voters of California and Common Cause, represented by the Campaign Legal Center and the Center for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), filed an amicus brief supporting California’s law requiring non-profits to disclose donors on their tax returns.

Whole Woman’s Health, a Texas abortion clinic, sued Texas after the state passed a law banning abortion after a fetal heartbeat is detected. Fetal heartbeats are typically detected six weeks into pregnancy. The law is not enforced through criminal penalties. Instead, the law would be enforced through bounties paid to private citizens suing recipients of abortion and those aiding and abetting the performance of an abortion. The law makes no exceptions for rape or incest.

Employees from Georgia, New York, and Michigan who were fired for being LGBTQ+ filed lawsuits against their employers arguing that their termination violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which forbids discrimination in employment based upon race, sex, color, or nationality. The League and 57 other civil rights organizations filed an amicus brief supporting the employees.

Several abortion providers in Louisiana sued to strike down state laws that restricted abortion access by requiring them to be staff members with admitting privileges in hospitals no further than 30 miles from their clinic. A similar law passed in Texas had caused nearly half of the state’s abortion clinics to close. In striking down the law, the district court found that, given Louisiana’s existing regulations, the law did not further women’s health and was nothing more than an abortion restriction.  

Plaintiff Catholic Social Services (CSS), a foster care agency retained by Philadelphia to provide placement services, sued after the city stated it would no longer contract with CSS if it continued to refuse to place foster children with unmarried and same-sex couples.

In June 2017, the Trump Administration announced that it would rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which covers over 700,000 undocumented residents. DACA allows recipients to work and be free from deportation for two-year periods on a renewable basis. The League filed an amicus brief at the Supreme Court with 45 other civil rights organizations opposing the Administration’s decision.

Plaintiffs sued in federal court to require Alabama to draw a second majority-Black Congressional district under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.