Amicus Briefs filed

Chapters:
Please note that two new amicus curiae briefs have been filed by NASW in the U.S. Supreme Court.

Sprint/United Management Co. v. Mendelsohn is an employment discrimination case that originated in Kansas. The case focuses on age discrimination, but the legal issues are more widely applicable to various forms of employment discrimination. The brief that NASW joined seeks the inclusion of “other supervisor” evidence by employee-plaintiffs as proof of discrimination in the workplace. It was filed October 19, 2007 by a legal team from Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP in New York, and the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law.



A brief was filed in Kennedy v. Louisiana on November 14, 2007 by NASW, the NASW Louisiana Chapter, and other organizations (NASW was the lead organization) by an excellent pro bono legal team from Mayer Brown LLP. The brief was filed in support of a petition for certiorari to the U.S. Supreme Court in a case addressing the imposition of the death penalty for child rape in Louisiana. NASW, and other victim advocate organizations, argue that the death penalty in child rape cases is actually detrimental to victims and increases the incentive for perpetrators to kill their victims.

Both briefs are available on the NASW LDF Amicus Brief Database by visiting www.socialworkers.org/ldf/brief_bank/default.asp