Arizona Supreme Court: ADF represent artists Joanna Duka and Breanna Koski and their freedom of conscience
Arizona state legislators, a publisher, and a variety of religious groups filed friend-of-the-court briefs with the Arizona Supreme Court on Friday in support of preserving artistic and religious freedom. Specifically, More...
ADF’s Jeremy Tedesco to testify on ‘The State of Intellectual Freedom in America’ at the House hearing
Alliance Defending Freedom Vice President of U.S. Advocacy Jeremy Tedesco will testify Thursday at a House subcommittee hearing titled “The State of Intellectual Freedom in America.” Tedesco will join university More...
Hawaii court strikes down law forcing pregnancy centers, pro-lifers to advertise abortions
A federal district court struck down a Hawaii law forcing pregnancy centers and pro-life doctors to advertise for the abortion industry Thursday, in light of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision affirming free More...
Ball State settles Students For Life lawsuit over free speech, discrimination
Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys representing a pro-life student organization voluntarily dismissed a lawsuit against Ball State University Tuesday after the university eliminated policies that discriminated More...
Liberty Counsel aids pro-life crisis pregnancy centers in California after SCOTUS kicked back cases
Liberty Counsel represents three pro-life crisis pregnancy centers in Southern California that were forced to promote abortion as a result of the California Reproductive FACT Act. This law compels pro-life crisis More...
ADF warns Hawaii AG Russell Suzuki on attempts to silence churches, threatening tax-exempt status
Alliance Defending Freedom sent a letter Monday to Hawaii Attorney General Russell Suzuki in response to a news release he issued last month with misleading information about how the federal tax code applies More...
Transgender lawyer Autumn Scardina sues Colorado baker Jack Phillips over refusing ‘trans cake’
Just when you thought Jack Phillips was out of the headlines, he’s back. The Colorado baker won a Supreme Court case over whether he can refuse service for same-sex weddings is suing the state again after More...
QUILTBAG activists ask lawyers to stop working with Liberty Counsel and Alliance Defending Freedom
The National LGBT Bar Association, a national associationof lawyers, an affiliate of the American Bar Association, recently announced a campaign that encourages attorneys across the nation to pledge not to provide More...
Illinois: La Harpe Community School District caves to atheist group, threatens to call police on individuals giving away Bibles
A public school district in Illinois sent a “cease and desist” letter to an unnamed person who gave away Bibles to boys and girls on a public street owned by the district. photo condesign via Pixabay “This More...
Court rules to protect Alabama Judge Tom Parker’s free speech on gay marriage after Southern Poverty Law Center lawsuit
The Alabama federal district court entered a permanent injunction in favor of Supreme Court Justice Tom Parker and against the Judicial Inquiry Commission (JIC) barring the use of judicial ethics canons to censor More...
Marquette counters John McAdams with ‘Myths vs Facts’ pages on website
Marrquette University has launched a full court, media campaign in their lawsuit with suspended professor, Dr. John McAdams, by setting up a web page on their site with their version of the “Facts About McAdams More...
Marquette sued over Dr John McAdams suspension, his defense of a student and free speech
Thomas More Society attorneys filed an amicus curiae (“friend of the court”) brief today in a Wisconsin Supreme Court case, John McAdams v. Marquette University. The lawsuit involves a Marquette University More...
Federal appeals court rules Michigan funeral home must allow employee to cross dress in transgender case
A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit ruled Wednesday that the federal government can force a Michigan funeral home to allow a male employee to dress as a woman despite the family More...
New York pro-life free speech case: witness Pearl Brady confesses to running fake Facebook page
The star witness in a federal lawsuit filed by Attorney General Eric Schneiderman admitted in court that she created a fake Facebook page, pretending she was a pro-life Christian, to gather information on and entrap More...
New Mexico Community College succumbs to atheist threats, ‘banishes’ ‘divisive’ crosses
New Mexico Junior College in Hobbs has been forced by Wisconsin’s Freedom From Religion Foundation to remove several Christian crosses that were previously displayed throughout the public school campus. The More...
Indiana school district to FFRF atheists: you are wrong, pastor led program doesn’t contain religion, Bible verses
A school district in Indiana has rebuked an atheist group’s demand that it dissolve a pastor-led program during the lunch period after investigating the matter and finding that no religious instruction is provided More...
UK judge rules against Christian Felix Ngole’s right to express Christian views as social worker
In a shocking free speech case, a Christian student who was expelled from university after posting on Facebook in support of Biblical teaching on marriage and sexual ethics has lost his case in a judicial review More...
Utah college student leads Ben Shapiro protest, Constitution not ‘a relevant document’
A student leader leading the protest against the speech by conservative commentator Ben Shapiro says that the First Amendment right to free speech is not relevant to modern times, adding that the U.S. Constitution More...
Minnesota: filmmakers Carl Larsen, Angel Larsen appeal gay marriage rules, forcing Telescope Media Group to film gay wedding
A pair of St. Cloud filmmakers on Friday appealed a court order from last month that dismissed their lawsuit challenging a state law that allows Minnesota officials to control the stories they tell. The law More...
Phoenix artists Joanna Duka, Breanna Koski appealing ‘jail threat’ ordinance over gay weddings
Two Phoenix artists will appeal a court rulingreleased Wednesday that allows a sweeping Phoenix ordinance to stand even though it uses the threat of jail time and fines to silence their desired speech and forces More...