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Amicus Brief Database

Amicus curiae, literally "friend of the court," briefs have proven to be one of the most effective means of addressing antisemitism, hate, discrimination and bigotry.

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Carson v. Makin (U.S. Supreme Court, 2021)

Amicus Brief
At issue in this case is a free exercise challenge to a Maine secondary school tuition assistance program. To provide for high school education in over half of the State’s school districts that do not have public secondary schools, Maine pays for students to attend public or private schools which provide secular education, including religiously affiliated schools that do not indoctrinate religion. The lawsuit was brought by parents seeking to send their children to religious schools. ADL…
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Soule v. CIAC (U.S.C.A. 2nd Circuit, 2021)

Amicus Brief
The Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference (CIAC) has a policy that allows K-12 athletes to participate in sports consistent with their gender identity. This inclusive policy and others like it help protect the safety and wellbeing of transgender youth, and help ensure that all women and girls can access the well-documented benefits of playing sports. In an amicus brief led by the National Women’s Law Center, ADL joined 34 other organizations in supporting CIAC against this…
Read more about Soule v. CIAC (U.S.C.A. 2nd Circuit, 2021)

Weiss v. National Westminster Bank PLC (cert. pending, U.S. Supreme Court, 2021)

Amicus Brief
In this case brought by families of dozens of American victims of Hamas terrorist attacks, the U.S. Court of Appeals granted summary judgment in favor of a British-based bank that provides banking services to a company, Interpal, that has been designated as a “Specially Designated Global Terrorist” (SDGT) by the U.S. Treasury Department. The issue is whether a bank that is “generally aware” of Interpal’s connection to Hamas can be held liable under U.S. anti…
Read more about Weiss v. National Westminster Bank PLC (cert. pending, U.S. Supreme Court, 2021)

O C Food & Beverage, LLC v. Orange County, Florida (Fifth District Court of Appeal, Florida, 2021)

Amicus Brief
The Orange County, Florida Human Rights Ordinance provides broader anti-discrimination protections than the State’s Human Rights Law, including prohibitions on sexual orientation and gender identity discrimination. At issue in this case is whether the State law preempts these broader protections.  ADL joined a brief asserting that the Florida Constitution and long-standing State Supreme Court rulings permit county and municipal governments to adopt more comprehensive anti…
Read more about O C Food & Beverage, LLC v. Orange County, Florida (Fifth District Court of Appeal, Florida, 2021)

Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization (U.S. Supreme Court, 2021)

Amicus Brief
Mississippi passed a law in 2018 that bars abortions after the 15th week of pregnancy, with limited exceptions. ADL joined with the National Women’s Law Center and 71 other organizations on an amicus brief urging that the law — an unmistakable challenge to Roe v. Wade — be found unconstitutional. The brief focuses on due process and explains that the devastating impact of allowing a pre-viability abortion ban to stand — or overturning the right to abortion entirely …
Read more about Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization (U.S. Supreme Court, 2021)

Crisitello v. St. Theresa School (Supreme Court of New Jersey, 2021)

Amicus Brief
At issue in this case is the application of the First Amendment’s ministerial employee exception to an art teacher at a religious elementary school. Grounded in constitutionally mandated separation of church and state, the exception exempts religious institutions from all employment discrimination laws for employees deemed to be ministerial. A lower state court ruled that the teacher, who performed no “vital religious duties,” could move forward with her pregnancy and marital…
Read more about Crisitello v. St. Theresa School (Supreme Court of New Jersey, 2021)

Corbitt v. Taylor (U.S.C.A. 11th Circuit, 2021)

Amicus Brief
Alabama only allows people to change the gender marker on their driver’s licenses if they undergo surgical procedures and submit proof to the state, meaning that transgender people who do not want, cannot afford, or are medically unable to have the required surgeries are prevented from having a license that accurately reflects their gender. Carrying a license with an inaccurate gender marker puts transgender people — especially Black and brown transgender women — at a…
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Morgan, et al. v. United States Soccer Federation, Inc. (U.S.C.A. 9th Circuit, 2021)

Amicus Brief
In March 2019, the United States Senior Women's National Soccer Team (USWNT) filed a class action lawsuit against the United States Soccer Federation, Inc. (USSF), claiming violations of the Equal Pay Act and of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 alleging unequal pay and working conditions as compared to the Men’s National Team (USMNT) in the District Court of Central California. For years, the U.S. Soccer Federation had been paying USWNT players less than their counterparts on…
Read more about Morgan, et al. v. United States Soccer Federation, Inc. (U.S.C.A. 9th Circuit, 2021)

Doe v. Hopkinton Public Schools (U.S.C.A. 1st Circuit, 2021)

Amicus Brief
This case involves a legal challenge to Massachusetts’s anti-bullying statute — namely, that the “emotional harm” prong of the definition of bullying in M.G.L. c. 71, section 37O(a) is unconstitutionally overbroad and vague. ADL has been a key proponent of anti-bullying legislation in Massachusetts and accordingly joined an amicus brief, prepared by GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders (GLAD), to emphasize the vital importance of the emotional harm prong of the…
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Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee/Arizona Republican Party v. Democratic National Committee (U.S. Supreme Court, 2021)

Amicus Brief
Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 prohibits voting practices and procedures that discriminate on the basis of race, color, or membership in language minority groups. In this case, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held that two Arizona election provisions — one that prohibits third-party ballot collection and another that prohibits the counting of out-of-precinct votes — violated Section 2 because of their discriminatory impact on communities of color. The…
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Pekoske/Wolf v. Innovation Law Lab (U.S. Supreme Court, 2021)

Amicus Brief
Under the “Remain in Mexico” policy, also known as the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), certain asylum seekers arriving at the U.S./Mexico border were forced to return to Mexico to await their U.S. asylum hearing. As of January 2021, tens of thousands of MPP asylum seekers were waiting in Mexico for their asylum hearings, which had been postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic since March 2020 with no clear dates for when the hearings would resume. ADL joined 110 other…
Read more about Pekoske/Wolf v. Innovation Law Lab (U.S. Supreme Court, 2021)

Boston Parent Coalition for Academic Excellence Corp. v. School Committee of the City of Boston (U.S.C.A. 1st Circuit, 2022; U.S. District of Massachusetts, 2021)

Amicus Brief
This case involves a constitutional challenge to a temporary admissions program, developed in the wake of COVID-19, for Boston’s three highly selective Exam Schools. The argument put forth by plaintiff is that the new plan — which involves the suspension of entrance exams in favor of criteria that value high academic standards, increased neighborhood equity, socioeconomic inclusion and racial diversity — is a race-based quota program that purportedly “disfavor[s] Asian…
Read more about Boston Parent Coalition for Academic Excellence Corp. v. School Committee of the City of Boston (U.S.C.A. 1st Circuit, 2022; U.S. District of Massachusetts, 2021)

Mahanoy Area School District v. B.L. (U.S. Supreme Court, 2021)

Amicus Brief
At issue in this case is the extent to which K-12 schools can regulate student speech that occurs off-campus. ADL joined a brief prepared by the National Women’s Law Center, Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund and Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, urging the Court to ensure that when it comes to off-campus speech, schools can regulate student bullying, harassment, or threats, but not speech that is merely perceived to substantially disrupt school activities. The…
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Resurrection School v. Hertel (U.S.C.A. 6th Circuit, 2021)

Amicus Brief
At issue in this case is a private religious school’s Free Exercise clause challenge to a State of Michigan COVID-19 order requiring all persons who are at least five years old to wear face masks whenever they are in a shared space with someone outside their household, including both public and private schools. The brief asserts that in the context of a national pandemic that has taken the lives of 543,000 Americans, including more than 16,900 Michigan residents, the order is fully…
Read more about Resurrection School v. Hertel (U.S.C.A. 6th Circuit, 2021)

Harvest Rock Church, Inc. v. Newsom (U.S. Supreme Court, 2021)

Amicus Brief
At issue in this case is a church invoking the Free Exercise Clause to seek a broad exemption from California coronavirus public-health orders that restrict indoor religious gatherings to the same extent or more favorably than similarly situated secular gatherings. In opposing this claim, the legal brief joined by ADL explains that the history of the Free Exercise Clause demonstrates it was never intended to require religious exemptions from laws that protect public health or safety. Rather,…
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South Bay United Pentecostal Church v. Newsom (U.S. Supreme Court, 2021)

Amicus Brief
At issue in this case is a church and member of the clergy invoking the Free Exercise Clause to seek a broad exemption from California coronavirus public-health orders that restrict indoor religious gatherings to the same extent or more favorably than similarly situated secular gatherings. In opposing this claim, the legal brief joined by ADL explains that the history of the Free Exercise Clause demonstrates it was never intended to require religious exemptions from laws that protect public…
Read more about South Bay United Pentecostal Church v. Newsom (U.S. Supreme Court, 2021)

Gish v. Newsom (U.S. Supreme Court, 2021)

Amicus Brief
At issue in this case is clergy and congregants from several churches invoking the Free Exercise Clause to seek a full exemption from California coronavirus public-health orders that restrict indoor religious gatherings to the same extent or more favorably than similarly situated secular gatherings. In opposing this claim, the legal brief joined by ADL explains that the history of the Free Exercise Clause demonstrates it was never intended to require religious exemptions from laws that protect…
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Demkovich v. Saint Andrew the Apostle Parish (U.S.C.A. 7th Circuit, en banc, 2021)

Amicus Brief
At issue in this case is whether the First Amendment ministerial exception should be expanded to categorically bar any Title VII or other hostile work environment claims by clergy and other ministerial employees of religious organizations. The purpose of the exception is to ensure that faith-based organizations have full control in hiring, firing and disciplining employees who perform religious duties. ADL joined a legal brief rejecting this expansion. The brief asserts that such an expansion…
Read more about Demkovich v. Saint Andrew the Apostle Parish (U.S.C.A. 7th Circuit, en banc, 2021)

Updegrove v. Herring (U.S.D.C., Eastern District of Virginia, 2020)

Amicus Brief
At issue in this case is a business invoking the Free Exercise Clause to seek a religious exemption from a state anti-discrimination law for the purpose of denying wedding photography services to LGBTQ couples. In opposing this claim, the legal brief joined by ADL asserts that such an exemption is not authorized by the Free Exercise Clause and prohibited by the Establishment Clause. Furthermore, the sought exemption would undermine the state law’s prohibitions on religious discrimination…
Read more about Updegrove v. Herring (U.S.D.C., Eastern District of Virginia, 2020)

Legacy Church, Inc. v. Kunkel (U.S.C.A. 10th Circuit, 2020)

Amicus Brief
At issue in this case is a church invoking the Free Exercise Clause to seek a full exemption from a New Mexico coronavirus public-health order. The order limits indoor religious services to twenty-five percent of building capacity, which is similar to or less restrictive than limitations on comparable nonreligious activities. In opposing the church’s claim, the legal brief joined by ADL asserts that the public health order is fully consistent with all Free Exercise Clause standards…
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