On June 7, 2018, the Women’s Rights Project, the Program on Freedom of Religion and Belief, the ACLU of New Jersey, and Powell & Román, LLC filed an appeal in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit on behalf of Marie Curto, Steve Lusardi, and Diana Lusardi, who faced fines for using their condominium’s pool contrary to the condominium association’s sex-segregated swimming pool hours. The condominium association’s policy limits when residents may use a communal swimming pool based explicitly and exclusively on the residents’ gender, in violation of the Fair Housing Act. The district court upheld the explicitly sex-segregated schedule. On appeal, the Third Circuit reversed the district court’s decision.

The American Civil Liberties Union, Center for Gender & Refugee Studies, the ACLU of Texas, and the ACLU of D.C. filed a federal lawsuit in August 2018 challenging the Trump administration’s gutting of asylum protections for immigrants fleeing domestic violence and gang brutality.

On November 29th, WRP, ACLU-FL, and the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. filed a complaint on behalf of Clinton Stanley, Jr., a six-year-old African American boy, and his parents, Clinton Stanley Sr. and Shulonda Rhodes with the Florida Department of Education alleging illegal racial discrimination by A Book’s Christian Academy (“A Book’s”) in Apopka, Florida.

In January 2018, WRP and the ACLU of Iowa filed an amicus brief with the Iowa Coalition Against Domestic Violence, the National Housing Law Project, National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty, National Network to End Domestic Violence, and Shriver Center addressing the proper application of Iowa’s Right to Assistance Law. The law protects people who summon emergency assistance from eviction or other landlord- or city-imposed penalties and preempts local crime nuisance ordinances. It was enacted with the advocacy of the ACLU, Iowa Coalition, and others.

On October 31st, 2018, WRP, the ACLU-DC, and the ACLU-AR submitted an amicus brief in support of plaintiffs Gayle Gordon and Theresa Maxwell, physicians in the Central Arkansas Veteran’s Healthcare System in Little Rock, Arkansas, who challenged under the Equal Pay Act the agency’s failure to pay them equal wages compared to that of their male colleagues.