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Court Case
Dec 04, 2023
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  • Women’s Rights

Freyer et al v. Frontier Airlines, Inc.

In 2019, the American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Colorado, Holwell Shuster & Goldberg LLP, and Towards Justice filed a lawsuit against Frontier Airlines for systematically denying its employees basic accommodations for pregnancy and breastfeeding.
Court Case
Apr 13, 2022
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  • Women’s Rights

Hodgkins et al v. Frontier Airlines, Inc.

The American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Colorado, Holwell Shuster & Goldberg LLP, and Towards Justice filed two companion lawsuits against Frontier Airlines today for systematically denying its employees basic accommodations for pregnancy and breastfeeding.
Court Case
May 28, 2015
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  • Women’s Rights

Provino v. Big League Haircuts

The ACLU of Colorado and the ACLU Women’s Rights Project filed suit on behalf of Ashley Provino, a Grand Junction woman who was fired from her job, in violation of state and federal anti-discrimination laws, for asserting her right to pump breast milk at work.
Court Case
Mar 12, 2014
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  • Women’s Rights

DISH Network Accommodation of Nursing Mothers

The ACLU of Colorado sent a letter on March 12, 2014 to DISH Network documenting multiple failures to accommodate nursing mothers at the company’s corporate headquarters in Englewood, where employees are forced to pump breast milk in front of their co-workers and supervisors, without privacy screens or curtains, and at a DISH Network call center in Littleton, where the lactation room is located inside a bathroom in direct violation of federal and state law.
Court Case
Oct 30, 2013
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  • Student and Youth Rights|
  • +1 Issue

Cherry Creek High School Maternity Leave

Cherry Creek High School violated Title IX of the Education Amendments Act of 1972 by failing to allow a pregnant student maternity leave for as long as her doctor determined was necessary.
Court Case
Sep 18, 2012
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  • Racial Justice|
  • +2 Issues

Burgbacher v. Rocky Mountain Academy of Evergreen

Court Case
May 23, 2012
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  • Immigrant Justice|
  • +1 Issue

Garfield County Sheriff Persists in Referring Domestic Violence Victims to ICE

An investigation by the American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado (ACLU) revealed that the Garfield County Sheriff’s Department (GCSD) has referred several victims of domestic violence to Immigration and Customs Enforcement, resulting in those individuals being placed in deportation proceedings because they chose to report acts of domestic violence to law enforcement.
Court Case
Sep 24, 2010
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  • Criminal Legal Reform|
  • +2 Issues

When A Strip Search Isn't Enough: Dept. of Corrections' Degrading Addition to Searching Women

The ACLU and ACLU of Colorado called upon the Colorado Department of Corrections to abandon a new policy that subjects prisoners to degrading body cavity searches.
Court Case
Aug 01, 2010
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  • Criminal Legal Reform|
  • +1 Issue

Town of Castle Rock v. Gonzales

This case raises the question of when, if ever, a victim of domestic violence who obtains a court order of protection can sue for damages caused by the failure of police officers who ignore repeated pleas to enforce that order.