Education & Athletics
Education Victories
- Protecting young women in schools from sexual harassment by their peers.
Doe v. Everett School District. - Successfully representing a middle school student expelled from school solely because she was pregnant.
In re S.S. - Changing the law to prohibit harassment in public schools and requiring the development of statewide guidelines against bullying, intimidation, and harassment.
Women in Sports Victories
- 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 - Requiring school districts to change slow-pitch to the more competitive fast-pitch softball teams, increasing access to scholarship opportunities for girls.
- 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
Women's rights. Nothing less.
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