Transgender, sexual orientation, freedom of conscience employment cases head to Supreme Court
Liberty Counsel filed two amicus briefs in support of employers in three Supreme Court cases regarding whether federal anti-discrimination laws should apply to “sexual orientation” and “gender identity.” The More...
Court rules Lehigh County seal with cross can stay, doesn’t violate the first amendment
The Third Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that the official seal of Lehigh County, Pennsylvania can remain on government property, despite efforts from the Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) to have it More...
Maryland same-sex, transgender counseling ban heads to court
Liberty Counsel is in federal district court today seeking a preliminary and permanent injunction against Maryland’s law which prohibits minors from receiving voluntary counseling from licensed professionals More...
Grant Strobl, Jacob Chludzinski and ThinkRight Strategies sues Ann Arbor over free speech laws, political speech
Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys representing a political consulting firm and its owners filed suit against the city of Ann Arbor in federal court Monday. The lawsuit challenges a city law that forces Grant More...
Supreme Court rules Trump can use $2.5 billion to ‘build the glorious’ southern border wall, ‘Big Win!’
The United States Supreme Court ruled on Friday that President Donald Trump can use $2.5 billion in military funding to build the border wall along the U.S. southern border. The Supreme Court’s order temporarily More...
ADF files motion to dismiss latest lawsuit against Jack Phillips, Masterpiece Cakeshop over transgender cake
Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys representing Colorado cake artist Jack Phillips and his Masterpiece Cakeshop filed a motion in state court Monday to dismiss the latest legal attack against him for declining More...
Al Franken regrets resigning, Jane Mayer leads #MeToo hypocrisy campaign to make him a victim
Al Franken told the New Yorker in an interview published Monday that he “absolutely” regrets resigning from the Senate in 2018 following sexual harassment allegations from eight women. Franken More...
Supreme Court secures Pensacola World War II cross, dismissing the ‘Lemon Test’
The U.S. Supreme Court ordered a lower court to reconsider its earlier ruling that a World War II-era memorial cross in Pensacola must be removed. In Kondrat’yev v. City of Pensacola, a federal appeals court had More...
Justice Clarence Thomas: SCOTUS must confront abortion decisions
Justice Clarence Thomas challenged the justices to confront the realities of what the Supreme Court “has wrought” through abortion rulings after it declined to revive Alabama’s ban prohibiting dilation and More...
Supreme Court defends offensive trademark, protecting Redskins and other logos
In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court on Monday sided with a Los Angeles designer who sought to trademark “FUCT” for his clothing line but was blocked by a federal law prohibiting registration of “immoral More...
SCOTUS rejects Oregon baker gay marriage case due to Jack Phillips ruling
In a victory for Sweet Cakes Bakery and Melissa and Aaron Klein, today the U.S. Supreme Court sent their case back to the Oregon Court of Appeals in light of the June 2018 decision in the Masterpiece Cakeshop case. “Lesbian” More...
Supreme Court rejects ‘In God We Trust’ case to remove phrase from US money
The Supreme Court announced yesterday it will not take up a legal dispute by atheist groups which sought to remove the words “In God We Trust” from U.S. currency. Michael Newdow, an activist who filed More...
SCOTUS asked to review Chicago’s abortion clinic ‘bubble zone’ blocking pro-life protests
The challenge to the Chicago law creating a “bubble zone” around abortion clinics moves on to the United States Supreme Court with a June 7, 2019, docketing of a Petition for Writ of Certiorari in Veronica More...
Justice Clarence Thomas attacks Planned Parenthood’s ties to ‘eugenics’
Justice Clarence Thomas reveals Planned Parenthood’s eugenic history in today’s ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court which upheld one provision of an Indiana state law that requires that fetal remains be buried More...
California Supreme Court allows ‘unconstitutional harassment’ of David Daleiden in Planned Parenthood whistleblower cast
The California Supreme Court has denied David Daleiden’s petition to halt criminal prosecution against him. Daleiden is the undercover journalist whose videos allegedly reveal the involvement of abortion industry More...
Virginia transgender bathroom battle wages on as ‘thousands of students’ are impacted, according to officials
Four northern Virginia school systems, reportedly insisting that there are “thousands of students in Virginia public schools who … identify as transgender,” are supporting a transgender teen’s lawsuit filed More...
SCOTUS to hear Funeral home transgender case, determine if ‘sex’ can be redefined as ‘gender identity’
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to review a lower court decision that redefines the word “sex” in federal law to mean “gender identity.” Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys representing a Michigan More...
Liberty Counsel asks SCOTUS to hear case on the California banning of counseling for gays, transgenderism
Liberty Counsel filed a petition today urging the U.S. Supreme Court to review Pickup v. Newsom, a case that upheld a ban by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals which prohibits licensed counselors from providing More...
Court dismisses Jack Phillips, Masterpiece Cakeshop case as Diann Rice’s remarks prove hostility against baker
The Colorado Civil Rights Commission announced Tuesday that it will dismiss its most recent charges against cake artist Jack Phillips in the wake of newly discovered evidence of the state’s ongoing hostility More...
ADF files Focus on the Family brief to SCOTUS to rebuke ‘unconstitutional’ Indiana law against ‘Option Ultrasound’
Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys representing Focus on the Family filed a friend-of-the-court brief Wednesday that urges the U.S. Supreme Court to review a lower court’s decision that declared unconstitutional More...
