Washington
Wagafe v. USCIS - Lawsuit Challenging Secret Program Blocking Immigrant Applications
The ACLU and its affiliates in Southern California and Washington, the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project, the National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild, the Law Offices of Stacy Tolchin, and Perkins Coie LLP filed a class action lawsuit in January 2017 challenging a federal government program used to deny or indefinitely delay thousands of law-abiding people—many of them from Muslim-majority countries—from becoming citizens or lawful residents due to unspecified “national security concerns.”
Status: Ongoing
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9 Washington Cases
Washington
Oct 2023
![Wetherell v. Alaska Airlines](https://www.aclu.dev/wp-content/themes/aclu-wp/img/fallback-case-gavel.png)
Wetherell v. Alaska Airlines
Justin Wetherell is a nonbinary flight attendant and flight attendant instructor at Alaska Airlines. As a flight attendant, they have been required to comply with Alaska Airlines’ uniform and grooming policies that are grounded in outdated sex stereotypes and conflict with Justin’s nonbinary gender identity and fluid gender expression. Now Justin and the Washington State Human Rights Commission are fighting to ensure that Alaska Airlines’ uniform and grooming policy complies with the Washington State Law Against Discrimination and permits all employees to dress and groom in a professional manner that is consistent with their gender identity and expression.
Status: Closed
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![Wetherell v. Alaska Airlines](https://www.aclu.dev/wp-content/themes/aclu-wp/img/fallback-case-gavel.png)
Washington
LGBTQ Rights
Wetherell v. Alaska Airlines
Justin Wetherell is a nonbinary flight attendant and flight attendant instructor at Alaska Airlines. As a flight attendant, they have been required to comply with Alaska Airlines’ uniform and grooming policies that are grounded in outdated sex stereotypes and conflict with Justin’s nonbinary gender identity and fluid gender expression. Now Justin and the Washington State Human Rights Commission are fighting to ensure that Alaska Airlines’ uniform and grooming policy complies with the Washington State Law Against Discrimination and permits all employees to dress and groom in a professional manner that is consistent with their gender identity and expression.
Oct 2023
Status: Closed
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Washington
Apr 2019
![National Family Planning & Reproductive Health Association, Feminist Women’s Health Center v. Alex Azar](https://www.aclu.dev/wp-content/themes/aclu-wp/img/fallback-case-gavel.png)
National Family Planning & Reproductive Health Association, Feminist Women’s Health Center v. Alex Azar
The ACLU and ACLU of Washington filed a lawsuit on behalf of the National Family Planning & Reproductive Health Association (NFPRHA) and Cedar River Clinics in Washington state challenging the Trump administration’s attempt to fundamentally alter the Title X family planning program, which provides care to 4 million low-income people each year.
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![National Family Planning & Reproductive Health Association, Feminist Women’s Health Center v. Alex Azar](https://www.aclu.dev/wp-content/themes/aclu-wp/img/fallback-case-gavel.png)
Washington
Reproductive Freedom
National Family Planning & Reproductive Health Association, Feminist Women’s Health Center v. Alex Azar
The ACLU and ACLU of Washington filed a lawsuit on behalf of the National Family Planning & Reproductive Health Association (NFPRHA) and Cedar River Clinics in Washington state challenging the Trump administration’s attempt to fundamentally alter the Title X family planning program, which provides care to 4 million low-income people each year.
Apr 2019
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Washington
Oct 2017
![Enstad v. PeaceHealth](https://www.aclu.dev/wp-content/themes/aclu-wp/img/fallback-case-gavel.png)
Enstad v. PeaceHealth
The ACLU and the ACLU of Washington filed a civil rights lawsuit against PeaceHealth, a Catholic healthcare organization, on behalf of Cheryl Enstad and her teenage son, Pax, for denying coverage under its health benefits plan for medically necessary surgery to Pax simply because of who he is. The suit claims that PeaceHealth’s policy of refusing to cover medical care required by transgender people is discrimination and violates federal and state law.
Status: Closed
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![Enstad v. PeaceHealth](https://www.aclu.dev/wp-content/themes/aclu-wp/img/fallback-case-gavel.png)
Washington
LGBTQ Rights
Enstad v. PeaceHealth
The ACLU and the ACLU of Washington filed a civil rights lawsuit against PeaceHealth, a Catholic healthcare organization, on behalf of Cheryl Enstad and her teenage son, Pax, for denying coverage under its health benefits plan for medically necessary surgery to Pax simply because of who he is. The suit claims that PeaceHealth’s policy of refusing to cover medical care required by transgender people is discrimination and violates federal and state law.
Oct 2017
Status: Closed
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Washington
Mar 2014
![Khoury v. Asher](https://www.aclu.dev/wp-content/themes/aclu-wp/img/fallback-case-gavel.png)
Khoury v. Asher
Khoury v. Asher is a class action lawsuit filed on behalf of immigration detainees in Washington State who are unlawfully subject to mandatory, no-bond detention. The lawsuit challenges the government's policy and practice of locking up immigrants in deportation proceedings without any chance for release on bail based on prior criminal convictions, even when they were released from criminal custody months or years ago, have turned their lives around, and are supporting their families.
Status: Closed (Judgment)
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![Khoury v. Asher](https://www.aclu.dev/wp-content/themes/aclu-wp/img/fallback-case-gavel.png)
Washington
Immigrants' Rights
Khoury v. Asher
Khoury v. Asher is a class action lawsuit filed on behalf of immigration detainees in Washington State who are unlawfully subject to mandatory, no-bond detention. The lawsuit challenges the government's policy and practice of locking up immigrants in deportation proceedings without any chance for release on bail based on prior criminal convictions, even when they were released from criminal custody months or years ago, have turned their lives around, and are supporting their families.
Mar 2014
Status: Closed (Judgment)
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