Chicago area: Families rally against ACLU transgender bathroom lawsuit, ‘Schools must protect the privacy needs of every child’
An association of concerned students and parents that filed a federal lawsuit to defend student privacy in a Palatine school district are now seeking to intervene in a separate state-level lawsuit filed by the More...
Judge rules taxpayers must fund abortion for illegal immigrant teen
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled Tuesday that the Trump administration cannot prevent an undocumented illegal immigrant teenager under federal custody in Texas from immediately having an abortion More...
President Trump ends Obamacare birth control mandate, #HandsofmyBC trends on Twitter
The Trump administration announced today a sweeping rollback of Obamacare’s birth control coverage mandate, allowing any employer to claim a religious or moral objection the unconstitutional mandate. The More...
Black Lives Matter attack, shut down ACLU free speech at William & Mary: ‘liberalism is white supremacy’
In a shocking display of intolerance, a group of Black Lives Matter protesters crashed the stage of an event titled “Students and the First Amendment” less than five minutes after the entrance of Virginia Claire More...
Judge strikes down Kentucky’s law requiring a sonogram prior to an abortion, it ‘upsets’ the patients
Federal Judge David Hale struck down a Kentucky pro-life law requiring women to obtain an ultrasound prior to an abortion, asserting that mandating mothers to look at the images of the babies prior to the More...
Iowa: Planned Parenthood, ACLU lead fight to abort 5 month and older babies, end waiting periods
While fighting before the vote, Planned Parenthood and ACLU worked hard to keep the right to abortion after 20 weeks and block a proposed 72-hour waiting period. The Iowa Supreme Court will decide whether to keep More...
The Three Types of Protection Your Small Business Can’t Afford to Be Without
In the wake of a seemingly unsteady landscape for businesses, long-term protection and security are on the minds of many entrepreneurs looking to stay afloat. You’ve probably grown tired of hearing about the More...
SCOTUS rejects transgender bathroom case, Gavin Grimm’s attempt to use different locker room, restroom
The Supreme Court on Monday sent a case involving a transgender high school student from Gloucester, Va. back to a lower court, striking a blow to the case of Gavin Grimm, a transgender student who is seeking to More...
Washington florist Barronelle Stutzman, Arlene’s Flowers case may go to Supreme Court
A Washington floral artist says she will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse a decision Thursday by the state’s high court that concluded that the government can force her—and, by extension, other Washingtonians—to More...
New Mexico: Atheists win as appeal to stop uprooting of Ten Commandments monument denied
A federal appeals court has denied a petition asking it to review a lower court ruling requiring the removal of a Ten Commandments monument in Bloomfield, New Mexico. The monuments sit with others at the City Hall, More...
New York judge rules against Trump’s Executive Order on detention immigrants, impact on legal visitors
President Trump’s Executive Order on immigration and border security angered many liberals and leftists so it’s no surprise that a New York Federal judge sided with an ACLU for a block on the order More...
ADF supports Carl Larsen, Angel Larsen, Telescope Media Group against Minnesota law banning ‘traditional marriage’ film
Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys representing a St. Cloud video production company and its owners filed a motion in federal court Friday to stop Minnesota officials from enforcing a state law against them while More...
ADF calls on SCOTUS to protect students’ privacy in Virginia transgender bathroom case
Alliance Defending Freedom filed a friend-of-the-court brief Tuesday with the U.S. Supreme Court in support of the student privacy policy of a Virginia school district. The Gloucester County School District policy More...
Virginia school board rejects special language for ‘gender identity’ and special privileges for ‘sexual orientation’
In a 5-4 vote Tuesday night, the Loudoun County School Board rejected a proposal to add “sexual orientation” and “gender identity” to the protected characteristics listed in its equal employment More...
ALCU sues Kentucky over ultrasound requirement prior to abortion, ‘perverse form’ of political interference
The American Civil Liberties Union went to court immediately after Republican Gov. Matt Bevin signed the ultrasound bill into law — one of two abortion measures passed by the GOP-led House and Senate in the first More...
Pro-abortion groups, Planned Parenthood, ACLU fight Alaska, Missouri, North Carolina
Three pro-abortion groups are joining together to challenge state restrictions on late-term abortions. Regulations in Alaska, Missouri, and North Carolina, counting on the Supreme Court’s decision in Whole Woman’s More...
ADF fights ACLU for Michigan Catholics, Genesys Health’s right to avoid performing sterilization procedures
Alliance Defending Freedom sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that asks the agency to reject an administrative complaint that the American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan filed More...
Support rallies around Barronelle Stutzman, Arlene’s Flowers as freedom of conscience to refuse gay wedding case heads to SCOTUS
Numerous states and groups filed friend-of-the-court briefs this week with the Washington Supreme Court in support of a Richland floral artist and the principle that the government cannot force Americans to promote More...
North Carolina Judge dismisses LGBT lawsuit against accommodation for magistrates objecting to gay weddings
Judge Max Cogburn dismissed Ansley et al. v. Warren, a lawsuit against a North Carolina law that provides a religious accommodation for magistrates who object to officiating or granting marriage licenses for same-sex More...
North Carolina court ruling protect prayer at public meetings as ‘clearly constitutional’
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit ruled Monday to uphold a North Carolina county’s prayer policy. ADF attorneys were co-counsel in the case and were also the attorneys behind the 2014 U.S. Supreme More...
