The following timeline represents formal legal changes and reforms regarding women's rights in the United States except voting rights.
Florida: In 2002, Sultaana Freeman filed a religious discrimination lawsuit against Florida when the state's Department of Highway Safety suspended her license when she refused to be re-photographed without her veil.
Her legal license was suspended without change in policy or law following the September 11, 2001 attacks.
Her lawsuit argued that her religious beliefs required her to wear a veil "in front of strangers and unrelated males".
Judge Janet C. Thorpe denied her lawsuit that year, and a state appeals court later upheld Thorpe's ruling.