NBA pulls All-Star Game from Charlotte over North Carolina’s transgender bathroom policy
The National Basketball Association (NBA) has officially broken its contract to play its 2017 All-Star Game at Time Warner Arena in Charlotte, North Carolina, because the state won’t allow men in women’s More...
ADF joins Iowa fight against churches’ mandate to add transgender bathrooms, teach against Bible on sex
Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys representing an Iowa church filed a motion Wednesday that asks a federal court to stop the Iowa Civil Rights Commission from censoring the church’s teaching on biblical sexuality More...
Texas AG Ken Paxton says state will ‘fight back’ against Obama threat to pull funding over transgender bathroom edict
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton told LifeSiteNews on Thursday that Texas will “fight back in every way we can” if the state loses federal funding for refusing to adopt the Obama administration’s new transgender More...
Supreme Court won’t rule in Obamacare mandate in Nuns case
The U.S. Supreme Court chose not to make a ruling in Zubik v. Burwell about whether the Obama administration’s controversial HHS mandate violated federal law. This decision sends the case back to U.S. Appeals More...
California mandates churches include abortion coverage in insurance plans, heads to court
Alliance Defending Freedom Legal Counsel Jeremiah Galus and ADF Senior Counsel Erik Stanley will be available for media interviews immediately following Galus’ arguments in federal court Friday in favor of allowing More...
ADF joins Grace Christian Life to sue NC State over limits on free speech
Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys representing a Christian student group at North Carolina State University filed a federal lawsuit against school officials Tuesday over its policy requiring a permit for any More...
Notre Dame students express outrage over Joe Biden being honored
A Cardinal New Society report summarizes that a “contingent of 89 students published a letter in the University of Notre Dame’s student newspaper in protest to the University’s announcement on March More...
Court rules to allow doctors help hospitals sued, forcing abortions to be performed
A federal court agreed to allow several pro-life doctor groups to intervene in defense of a Catholic hospital system which the American Civil Liberties Union sued last year. In December, Alliance Defending Freedom More...
Freedom for pharmacists’ freedom of conscience going to US Supreme Court
Fourteen briefs have been filed with the U.S. Supreme Court that encourage it to weigh in on Washington state rules that force pharmacy owners and pharmacists to stock and dispense drugs contrary to their religious More...
ADF joins fight against California from mandating churches include abortion coverage
Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys filed a lawsuit in state court Thursday against the California Department of Managed Health Care for forcing churches to pay for elective abortions in their health insurance More...
Thomas More Society, Illinois Right to Life calling for Supreme Court to mandate hospital access, uphold Texas laws
Thomas More Society has filed an amicus brief, on behalf of Illinois Right to Life, with the United States Supreme Court in the case Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt. The brief urges the Court to find that More...
Coalition grows against abortion pill mandate in Obamacare
A broad array of groups and states – including more than 200 members of Congress and 20 states – filed briefs this week with the U.S. Supreme Court in opposition to the Obama administration’s abortion-pill More...
Christian colleges take battle over abortion pill mandate to US Supreme Court
Several religious non-profit organizations filed an opening brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in consolidated lawsuits against the Obama administration’s abortion-pill mandate and its religious non-profit options, More...
ADF takes on ACLU over forcing Christians, religious hospitals, staff to perform abortions
Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys representing several pro-life, pro-women’s organizations asked a federal court Wednesday to allow the groups to intervene in defense of a Catholic hospital system that the More...
US Supreme Court to ‘weigh in’ on Obamacare abortion-pill mandate and ‘misnamed accommodation’
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to weigh in on the Obama administration’s abortion-pill mandate and its misnamed “accommodation” for some non-profit organizations. Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys represent More...
Oklahoma schools still fighting Obamacare mandates, accommodation ‘shams’
Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys filed a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday that responds to Obama administration arguments against high court review of the abortion-pill mandate and its misnamed “accommodation” More...
Abortion pill mandate in Obamacare under attack as ADF defends Christian schools
Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys filed a petition with the U.S. Supreme Court Friday that asks it to take up a challenge to the Obama administration’s abortion-pill mandate by four Christian universities in More...
ADF leads appeal to protect pharmacists from being forced to distribute abortion pills
The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Vice President of Legal Services Kristen Waggoner regarding the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit’s decision in Stormans v. Wiesman More...
California law requires students to be vaccinated, denies opting out for ‘beliefs’
California Gov. Jerry Brown has signed a law that requires public and private school students to receive vaccinations to attend school. The law was designed as a measure to prevent outbreaks of diseases in schools, More...
Supreme Court rules to allow Obamacare’s federal subsidies
The Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that President Obama’s health care law allows the federal government to provide nationwide tax subsidies to help lower income people buy health insurance, validating supporter’s More...
