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- Stuart v. Board of Elections is filed to allow women to vote using their birth names. One of WLC’s founding members, Gerry Sweeney, is the law clerk to the judge hearing the case and researched the opinion in the Stuart case.
- WLC and the Legal Aid Bureau successfully represent symphony harpist Rosmarie B. Orner, arguing that it is unconstitutional to disqualify pregnant women from receiving unemployment benefits in Orner v. Board of Appeals.
- WLC files an amicus brief in a case challenging the requirement that married women register to vote under their married names.
- Congress passes Equal Rights Amendment and WLC helps fuel the formation of the Governor’s Commission to Study Implementation of the Equal Rights Amendment.
- Legal hotline services begin.
