Legal Advocacy & Impact Litigation

This lawsuit challenged Trump-era regulations that represent a radical departure from the way previous administrations applied Title IX to school sexual harassment, including sexual assault.

This case challenged California's policy of denying cash assistance to relative caregivers when the children they care for get in trouble with the law and are returned home on probation.

This lawsuit charges Nevada and Clark County officials with failing to protect the health and safety of children in foster care.

This federal civil rights complaint concerns the use of criminal courts to prosecute youth for truancy, and the way that school district's violations of students' civil and educational rights directly contribute to this problem.

This lawsuit was filed to stop U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos and the Trump Administration’s Title IX policy.

Every day, the approximately 13,000 children in the foster care custody of the state of Missouri are exposed to an unreasonable risk of serious physical and psychological harm because the state fails to maintain an adequate oversight system to ensure that psychotropic drugs are administered safely

NCYL brought this case on behalf of four students to challenge years of intentional discrimination by the District based on their race, sex, and disability status.

Police employed by the School District of Palm Beach County illegally use the Florida Mental Health Act, also known as the Baker Act, to subject hundreds of students each year to involuntary psychiatric examinations, without their parents' input, consent and, sometimes, over their objections.

In May 2016, after decades of litigation, a federal judge ordered the Mississippi Cleveland School District to desegregate its middle and high schools.