Legal Momentum

Major initiatives and involvement

• Wins Sprogis v. United Air Lines, Inc., 1970.
• Establishes the Judicial Appointment Project and the National Judicial Education Program to increase the number of female federal judges and eliminate gender bias in the courts, 1978-88. The National Judicial Education Program continues to develop training materials and provide training for judges, prosecutors, and multidisciplinary audiences nationwide in order to improve the handling of sexual assault cases.
• Wins Tallon v. Liberty Hose Co. No. 1,, 1984.
• Robinson v. Jacksonville Shipyards, 1991 and 1995.
• Crafts the Violence Against Women Act, 1994, and its 2000, 2005, 2011, and 2013 reauthorizations.
• Argued United States v. Morrison, 2002.
• Amicus curiae in Nevada Department of Human Resources v. Hibbs, 2003.
• Argued United States v. The City of New York,, 2004.
• The National Judicial Education Program posts an extensive online course on an almost invisible issue with critical implications for risk assessment, Intimate Partner Sexual Abuse: Adjudicating This Hidden Dimension of Domestic Violence Cases. Focused on judges but useful for multidisciplinary audiences, the online course is free and open to all, http://www.njep-ipsacourse.org, 2008.
• Amicus curiae in "U.S. v. Castleman,", 2014; Supreme Court's opinion cited information from the amicus brief by National Network to End Domestic Violence, Legal Momentum, et al.
• Amicus curiae in "Young v. United Parcel Service,", 2014;

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