Elizabeth Reinhardt

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Cooley, ACLU Represent National Women’s Law Center in Intervening to Defend Transgender College Athletes

May 8, 2024

Cooley, alongside the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the ACLU of Georgia, filed a motion on behalf of the National Women’s Law Center to intervene as a defendant in a pending lawsuit against the NCAA that seeks to block transgender women and girls from playing NCAA sports, to bar transgender women and girls from using women’s facilities, and to erase records of past participation by transgender women and girls in NCAA sports.

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Kathleen R. Hartnett
Partner, San Francisco
Patrick J. Hayden
Special Counsel, New York
Valeria M. Pelet del Toro
Associate, New York
Katelyn Kang
Associate, New York
Elizabeth Reinhardt
Associate, Washington, DC
Zoë Helstrom
Associate, San Francisco
Celene Chen
Associate, Boston
Erin Combs
Senior Paralegal, Washington, DC
Valeria M. Pelet del Toro
Associate, New York

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Cooley, ACLU and Lambda Legal Secure Win for Transgender Student Athlete in West Virginia

April 18, 2024

Cooley, alongside the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), ACLU of West Virginia and Lambda Legal, secured a win for client Becky Pepper-Jackson in B.P.J. v. West Virginia State Board of Education before the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.

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Kathleen R. Hartnett
Partner, San Francisco
Katelyn Kang
Associate, New York
Zoë Helstrom
Associate, San Francisco
Elizabeth Reinhardt
Associate, Washington, DC
Mariah A. Young
Associate, Chicago
Erin Combs
Senior Paralegal, Washington, DC
Elizabeth Rice
Paralegal Specialist, Boston

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Cooley + Coalition Sue West Virginia to Challenge Law Discriminating Against Transgender Youth

June 1, 2021

Cooley, alongside co-counsel the American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU West Virginia and Lambda Legal, filed a lawsuit challenging HB 3293, West Virginia’s new law banning girls and women who are transgender from participating in school sports. Partner Kathleen Hartnett led the Cooley effort.

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Kathleen R. Hartnett
Partner, San Francisco
Katelyn Kang
Associate, New York
Elizabeth Reinhardt
Associate, Washington, DC

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Federal Judge Upholds Equitable Admissions Policy for Boston Exam Schools

April 27, 2021

A Massachusetts federal judge has upheld the Boston school system’s new admission policy for exam schools, a victory that will enhance racial, socioeconomic and geographical diversity in the city’s most prestigious public high schools. Cooley partners Michael Sheetz and Adam Gershenson led the Cooley effort, representing Anti-Defamation League on an amicus brief alongside leading nonprofits, business organizations and sports teams the Boston Celtics and the Boston Red Sox. The brief demonstrated that diversity benefits all students and local businesses because it helps create a generation of leaders equipped to compete in a diverse, global marketplace.

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Michael Sheetz
Partner, Boston
Adam Gershenson
Partner, Boston
Michael McMahon
Partner, Boston
Robby L.R. Saldaña
Associate, Washington, DC
Elizabeth Reinhardt
Associate, Washington, DC
Elizabeth Rice
Paralegal Specialist, Boston

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