On November 22nd, 2021, Boyden Gray & Associates filed an opening brief challenging SEC’s order approving a new rule requiring almost every Nasdaq-listed company to impose “diversity” quotas for certain minimum numbers of women, racial minorities, and sexual minorities on those companies’ boards of directors. Any company that does not meet these quotas must file an “explanation” for why it…
On November 5th, 2021, Boyden Gray & Associates filed a petition asking the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals to issue an administrative stay and a stay pending judicial review of the emergency temporary standard (vaccine mandate) issued without notice-and-comment by the Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA). The vaccine mandate covers 84 million American workers and will…
Boyden Gray & Associates filed an amicus brief today in the Supreme Court on behalf of the D.C. Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers in favor of the petitioner in Orlando Carter v. District of Columbia, No. 21-340. The brief urges the Court to grant certiorari and hold that the First Amendment protects religious nonprofits’ right to hire those who share…
Boyden Gray & Associates filed an amicus brief yesterday in the Supreme Court on behalf of Samaritan’s Purse in favor of the petitioner in Seattle’s Union Gospel Mission v. Matthew S. Woods, No. 21-144. The brief urges the Court to grant certiorari and hold that the First Amendment protects religious nonprofits’ right to hire those who share their faith. The…
Boyden Gray & Associates filed an amicus brief today in the Supreme Court on behalf of Reason for Life in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, No. 19-1392, which will consider whether “[w]hether all pre-viability prohibitions on elective abortions are unconstitutional.” The brief is available here. As we argue in the brief, the analysis in previous cases like Roe v….