The Docket: News and Commentary Articles from ADF

For more than 12 years, Masterpiece Cakeshop owner Jack Phillips had been relentlessly pursued by government officials and activists.

The Biden administration has misused federal law to mandate that doctors perform some elective abortions in emergency rooms.

We cannot continue to let law enforcement, regulators, and banks that are too big to fail run roughshod over our First Amendment freedoms.

Peter Vlaming, a high school French teacher in Virginia, was fired for respectfully declining to use pronouns inconsistent with biological sex.

Police correctly acknowledged that they were wrong to punish Isabel Vaughan-Spruce for silently praying, but the U.K. must do more to protect free speech.

Ectopic pregnancy is both a tragedy and an emergency, and laws in every state protect treatment for women who face it.

Genuine love seeks the good of the other, even when it might cause us to be unfairly treated or called hateful.

Chase Windebank was called into the principal’s office for praying with his friends during free time. ADF sued the school district to protect his rights.

A religiously and ethnically diverse group of parents and students challenged racially discriminatory policies of Albemarle County Public Schools.

The Brazilian Supreme Court blatantly violated free speech rights by banning X after the company’s chairman, Elon Musk, declined to censor disfavored views.