Civil Rights
Victories
- Writing and helping to pass a law that protects victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking from housing discrimination.
For information on your legal rights, see Landlord/Tenant Issues For Survivors of Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault, and/or Stalking.
- Winning court cases in Oregon and Washington requiring the Fraternal Order of Eagles to admit women as members.
Grand Aerie FOE v. FOE Tenino Aerie No. 564; Lahmann and Shimer v. Grand Aerie, FOE
- Enforcing state and federal law against athletic discrimination in educational programs.
Blair v. Washington State University
- Requiring local sports programs to provide equal ice time for girls' hockey teams as for comparable boys' teams.
Firebirds Hockey Association v. City of Anchorage
- Fighting policies that exclude girls from playing on boys' teams based solely on their gender, without consideration of their ability and other relevant non-discriminatory factors.
Russell v. Seattle Youth Soccer Association; Nared v. YMCA of Columbia-Willamette and The Hoop
- Striking down Montana's "sexual deviant conduct law" that criminalized intimate sexual relationships between consenting adults of the same sex.
Gryczan v. Montana
- Requiring the State of Alaska to correct discriminatory conditions suffered by women prisoners.
Cleary v. Smith
- Successfully bringing suit, along with Columbia Legal Services and ACLU-WA, to require the State of Washington to provide equality in women's health care to incarcerated women.
Hallett v. Washington Corrections Center for Women
Women's rights. Nothing less.
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