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Merits Brief Exhibits in Gonzales v. USA (03/25/2008)

Merits Brief in Gonzales v. USA (03/25/2008)

Lewis v. North End Village - Disclosure to Housing Applicants (02/26/2008)

Lewis v. North End Village - Employee Manual Amendment (02/26/2008)

Lewis v. North End Village - Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking Policy (02/26/2008)

Lewis v. North End Village - Settlement Order (02/26/2008)

Lewis v. North End Village - Complaint Form (02/26/2008)

Lewis v. North End Village - Request for Relocation and Early Lease Termination Form (02/26/2008)

Jessica Ruth Gonzales v. The United States of America: IACHR’s Admissibility Decision (10/05/2007)

Jessica Ruth Gonzales v. The United States of America: Observations Concerning the March 2, 2007 Hearing Before the Commission (05/14/2007)

Boswell v. GumBayTay - Federal Amended Complaint (05/04/2007)

Summary of Jessica Gonzales' Argument Before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (03/02/2007)
Outline of the major factual and legal arguments from Jessica Gonzales' December 23, 2005, petition and her December 11, 2006, observations to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.

Boswell v. GumBayTay - Federal Court Decision Ordering Preliminary Injunction (02/23/2007)

Lewis v. North End Village - Federal Complaint (02/21/2007)

ACLU Demand letter to Management Systems on Behalf of Tanica Lewis (01/17/2007)

Jessica Gonzales v. U.S.A. - Observations Concerning the Response of the United States Government (12/11/2006)

Jessica Gonzales v. U.S.A. - Exhibits in Support of Observations Concerning the Response of the United States Government (12/11/2006)

Declaration of Jessica Gonzales (12/06/2006)

Jessica Gonzales v. USA - Government Response (09/25/2006)
U.S. Government Response to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Regarding Jessica Gonzales' Petition.

Simpson v. University of Colorado - Amicus Brief (08/24/2006)
On August 24, 2006 the ACLU Women’s Rights Project and Racial Justice Program, joined by the ACLU of Colorado, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., Legal Momentum, the National Partnership for Women and Families, and many other leading civil rights and women’s rights organizations filed a brief as friends of the court in the matter of Simpson v. University of Colorado on behalf of the appellants Lisa Simpson and Anne Gilmore. Ms. Simpson and Ms. Gilmore were sexually assaulted by University of Colorado football players and recruits while they were students at the school. They sued the University for sexual harassment, but lost in the trial court. The ACLU brief argues that the University is liable under Title IX for the sexual assault of the appellants because the University was on notice of a pattern of sexual assault and harassment in the football program and acted with deliberate indifference to the ongoing culture of hostility and abuse of women. In September 2007 the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit found for the appellants and reversed the trial court’s summary judgment. In December 2007 the University of Colorado settled the case and agreed to pay Lisa Simpson $2.5 million, hire a new counselor for the Office of Victim’s Assistance and appoint an independent, outside Title IX advisor.