LeGrand Law Assists in Amicus Brief in Support of Adding Equal Rights Amendment to the United States Constitution

LeGrand Law recently served as local counsel on an amicus brief filed on behalf of businesses and corporations urging the archivist of the United States to publish the Equal Rights Amendment (“ERA”) as the Twenty Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

The ERA would formally entrench equal rights for women in the Constitution.

The amendment was first approved by Congress in 1972, but fell three votes short of the threshold required for ratification by the states. Earlier this year, Virginia became the pivotal thirty-eighth state to ratify the ERA, clearing the way for the amendment to be published.

LeGrand Law is proud to have played a small role in this important cause.