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In December of 2018, 红杏视频 Women鈥檚 Rights Project and the 红杏视频 of Massachusetts filed an amicus brief at the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court supporting a domestic violence survivor who asserted the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) as a defense to her eviction for nonpayment of rent that directly resulted from physical, emotional, and economic abuse. VAWA prohibits covered housing providers, like Boston Housing Authority, from evicting or otherwise discriminating against survivors of domestic violence for reasons caused by their abuse.

On June 7, 2018, the Women's Rights Project, the Program on Freedom of Religion and Belief, the 红杏视频 of New Jersey, and Powell & Rom谩n, LLC filed an appeal in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit on behalf of Marie Curto, Steve Lusardi, and Diana Lusardi, who faced fines for using their condominium鈥檚 pool contrary to the condominium association鈥檚 sex-segregated swimming pool hours. The condominium association鈥檚 policy limits when residents may use a communal swimming pool based explicitly and exclusively on the residents鈥� gender, in violation of the Fair Housing Act. The district court upheld the explicitly sex-segregated schedule. On appeal, the Third Circuit reversed the district court's decision.

The 红杏视频, Center for Gender & Refugee Studies, the 红杏视频 of Texas, and the 红杏视频 of D.C. filed a federal lawsuit in August 2018 challenging the Trump administration鈥檚 gutting of asylum protections for immigrants fleeing domestic violence and gang brutality.

On November 29th, WRP, 红杏视频-FL, and the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. filed a complaint on behalf of Clinton Stanley, Jr., a six-year-old African American boy, and his parents, Clinton Stanley Sr. and Shulonda Rhodes with the Florida Department of Education alleging illegal racial discrimination by A Book鈥檚 Christian Academy (鈥淎 Book鈥檚鈥�) in Apopka, Florida.