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Doe v. San Jose Unified School District Board (Legal Case)

9/13/2023

Case brought by two members of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA) alleging their rights under the First and Fourteenth Amendments and the Equal Access Act were violated when the club was…

Hamilton v. Dallas County (Legal Case)

8/18/2023

Case filed by nine female detention service officers against the Dallas County Sheriff’s Department asserting sex discrimination in scheduling days off.

Hecox v. Little (Legal Case)

8/17/2023

LWVUS filed an amicus brief in support of plaintiffs in Hecox v. Little, which challenges Idaho’s law that targets transgender, nonbinary, and intersex students with the nation’s harshest…

LWVUS Joins Sign-on Letter Urging Congress to Invest in Gender Justice in the 2023 Farm Bill (Legal Document)

8/14/2023

LWVUS joined more than 250 other groups on a letter to House and Senate agriculture committee leadership urging them to protect and strengthen the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and…

LWVUS Urges US House to Support Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) for Centennial (Legal Document)

7/20/2023

LWVUS sent a memo to the US House urging them to support H.J. Res. 25, a resolution to affirm the validity of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), during the 100-year anniversary of the ERA's…

Anti-LGBTQIA+ State Legislative Trends (Blog)

7/13/2023

Throughout 2023, we have seen an unprecedented number of legislative attacks on the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, asexual, and other sexual and gender minority (…

It's been 100 years. It's time to ratify the ERA (News Clips)

7/4/2023

This opinion was originally published in The Salt Lake Tribune. Vicki Samuelson from the League of Women Voters of Utah wrote about why it's time to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA).

303 Creative LLC v. Elenis (Legal Case)

6/30/2023

US Supreme Court case considering whether a Colorado law banning discrimination against LGBTQIA+ persons by businesses violates the business owner’s First Amendment right to freedom of religion.

LWV Responds to Supreme Court Decision Legalizing Discrimination Against Same-Sex Couples (Press Release)

6/30/2023

WASHINGTON — Today, League of Women Voters of the United States President Dr. Deborah Turner issued the following statement after the Supreme Court held that a Colorado website designer may…

Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard (consolidated with Students for Fair Admissions v. University of North Carolina) (Legal Case)

6/29/2023

Students for Fair Admissions, a non-profit representing students and others opposed to race-conscious admissions, sued Harvard University, alleging its consideration of race in admissions violated…