Whether this sex discrimination case against Wal-Mart should be allowed to proceed as a class action.

Whether the government may constitutionally make it more difficult for citizen fathers than citizen mothers to transmit citizenship to their out-of-wedlock children born outside the U.S.

 

The ACLU filed an amicus brief arguing that the state of Indiana cannot unconstitutionally subject a woman to harsher criminal penalties because she is pregnant.

In December 2008, Lisa Valentine, a devout Muslim, accompanied her nephew to Douglasville Municipal Court for his traffic hearing. While going through security, she was informed by an officer that she would have to remove her religious head covering before she entered the courtroom, due the court’s "no headgear" policy. When she protested the policy, believing it to be a violation of her right to freely practice her faith, she was restrained, arrested, forced to remove her headscarf, and jailed.