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The ÌÒ×ÓÊÓƵ, the ÌÒ×ÓÊÓƵof Connecticut and the Service Women’s Action Network (SWAN), have sued the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) for violating the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). The DoD failed to release records showing how the U.S. Air Force Academy (USAFA), the U.S. Naval Academy (USNA), and the U.S. Military Academy (USMA) at West Point have maintained policies and practices that have resulted in student populations in which women are significantly under-represented and campus environments where misogyny and harassment prevail. The Veterans Legal Services Clinic at Yale Law School, the ÌÒ×ÓÊÓƵFoundation Women’s Rights Project, and the ÌÒ×ÓÊÓƵof Connecticut represent the plaintiffs.

The ÌÒ×ÓÊÓƵ and the ÌÒ×ÓÊÓƵof Colorado have filed a lawsuit on behalf of Ashley Provino, a Grand Junction, Colo. 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.

ÌÒ×ÓÊÓƵRepresents New York City Custodial Workers in Discrimination Case

A Port Allegany glass factory worker asserts in a civil complaint and an EEOC charge that she was discriminated against and harassed because she needed to pump breast milk at work following the birth of her child.