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The Women's Law Fund (1972-2006), a non-profit organization co-founded by attorneys Jane M. Picker and Lizbeth A. Moody, both
professors at Cleveland State University's Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, evolved out of divisions within Women's Equity
Action League (WEAL) concerning the mission, structure, and funding of that organization. WEAL was a national organization
founded in Cleveland, Ohio, and committed to combating sex discrimination and advocating for economic equality for women through
education and litigation. The focus of Women's Law Fund was to fund specific sex discrimination cases and secure attorneys
for litigation. In the first case supported by the fund, LaFleur, et al. v. Cleveland Board of Education, et al., the U.S
Supreme Court prohibited the school board's mandatory maternity leave policy for violation of the Fourteenth Amendment's Due
Process Clause. The Women's Law Fund disbanded in 2006 having reached its goals. The collection consists of administrative
records, agendas, charts, correspondence, financial records, forms, grant proposals, legal records, lists, memoranda, minutes,
newspaper articles, notes, promotional materials, and reports.
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