The Adoptees' Liberty Movement Association (ALMA) was one of the first adoptee rights organizations in the United States, founded in 1971 by adoptee, author, and activist Florence Anna Fisher. Its principal initial goals were to "abolish the existing practice of 'sealed records'" and to secure the "opening of records to any adopted person over eighteen who wants, for any reason, to see them." While ALMA was one of the plaintiffs in a 1978 federal lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of sealing and restricting the release of pre-adoption birth records to adult adopted people, the lawsuit ultimately was not successful, setting back the adoptee rights movement for years.