The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama in Massey v. Dorning, 611 F. Supp. 3d 1301 (N.D. Ala. 2020), examined gender discrimination, harassment, and retaliation claims brought by Sonya Massey, a deputy sheriff in Madison County. Massey alleged that the Sheriff’s Office fostered a culture hostile to women, where female employees faced sexual harassment, unsafe assignments, and retaliatory actions for reporting misconduct.
In Morris v. Bessemer City Board of Education (N.D. Ala. 2020), the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama reviewed claims of employment discrimination and retaliation brought by Connie Morris, a former athletic director.
In Summit Medical Associates, P.C. v. Pryor, 180 F.3d 1326 (11th Cir. 1999), the Eleventh Circuit addressed constitutional challenges to Alabama’s Partial-Birth Abortion Act and its Post-Viability Abortion Statute.
In West Alabama Women’s Center v. Williamson, 900 F.3d 1310 (11th Cir. 2018), the Eleventh Circuit examined the constitutionality of Alabama’s Unborn Child Protection from Dismemberment Abortion Act. The law sought to ban dilation and evacuation (D&E) procedures, a standard method utilized in most second-trimester abortions and miscarriages.
The Alabama Constitution contains several provisions relevant to matters of reproduction, marriage, and freedom of religion.
The U.S. Supreme Court case Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt, 579 U.S. 582 (2016), held that two requirements of Texas’s H.B.
Obergefell v. Hodges, 576 U.S. 644 (2015) is a U.S. Supreme Court case holding that under the Fourteenth Amendment states must both license marriages between two people of the same sex and recognize same-sex marriages legally performed in other states.
