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- ADF attorneys authored friend-of-the-court brief against lawsuit designed to block conferences that assist faith-based and secular organizations in applying for funding
- U.S. Supreme Court to hear appeal of decision that said taxpayers may sue White House for funding conference informing charities about federal assistance
- Supreme Court upholds constitutionality of federal ban on partial-birth abortion
- Photo artist told to pay over $6,600 in attorneys’ fees for declining to photograph same-sex ceremony
- Photo artist forced to pay over $6,600 in attorneys’ fees for declining to photograph same-sex ceremony
- ADF provided funding, friend-of-the-court briefs
- WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Justice publicized its support Monday for two religious freedom cases that are being litigated by attorneys with the Alliance Defense Fund. The two cases were among four featured in the DOJ’s publication Religious Freedom in Focus. “Christians and Christian organizations should not be singled out for different treatment merely because they are religious. We appreciate the DOJ’s position on these two cases and are glad they concur with the analysis that discrimination against someone based upon their point of view is unacceptable under the Constitution,” said ...
- Photo artist told by civil rights commission to pay over $6,600 in attorneys’ fees for declining to photograph same-sex ceremony
- SAN FRANCISCO — Today the California Supreme Court handed a huge victory to the millions of California voters who passed Proposition 22 and oppose same-sex "marriage." The court ruled 7-0 that the mayor and county clerk of San Francisco exceeded their authority when they defied state law and issued "marriage" licenses to same-sex couples. The court also ruled 5-2 that because San Francisco issued the licenses illegally, they are invalid. "The justices have restored the rule of law in California," said Alliance Defense Fund Senior Counsel Jordan Lorence, who argued the case Lewis v. Alfaro ...
- MADISON, WI— This past Friday was a day to remember for Captain Scott Southworth, a unit commander in the Wisconsin National Guard 32nd Military Police Company. Southworth’s unit returned on Friday from more than a year of rigorous duty in Iraq and the United States Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit handed down the latest opinion in Southworth v. Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System. Captain Southworth, then a student at the University of Wisconsin, was the plaintiff in the lawsuit when it was filed in 1996. The lawsuit challenged the unfair nature of mandatory student ...