Whether the Military Selective Service Act, which allows the President to require young people to register for the draft only if they are men, discriminates on the basis of sex.

The American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Colorado, and the law firm Holwell Shuster & Goldberg LLP, and Towards Justice filed two companion lawsuits on behalf of eight pilots and flight attendants at Frontier Airlines in Colorado for failing to provide accommodations related to pregnancy and breastfeeding. The complaint challenges Frontier’s discriminatory policies and practices of penalizing pregnancy-related absences, refusing to provide accommodations to pregnant and breastfeeding pilots and flight attendants, and prohibiting breast pumping while on duty.

This case involves a public charter school in North Carolina that requires girls to wear skirts to receive their state-guaranteed and state-provided education, based on the belief that every girl is “a fragile vessel” and that girls wearing skirts would promote “chivalry.”

On October 22, 2020, the ACLU filed suit on behalf of Open Communities Alliance and SouthCoast Fair Housing against the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), challenging its new regulation on disparate impact discrimination under the Fair Housing Act.