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The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Natalie Thompson regarding a Louisiana district court’s ruling Thursday in Rapides Parish School Board v. United States Department of Education to halt the Biden administration’s illegal rewrite of Title IX while the lawsuit continues. This is the first preliminary injunction issued in the country that puts a stop to the administration’s unlawful Title IX rule: “The Biden administration’s radical redefinition of sex turns back the clock on equal opportunity for women, undermines fairness, and threatens student ...

ADF attorneys available for media interviews following oral arguments Tuesday

The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel and Vice President of U.S. Litigation David Cortman regarding a decision Sunday by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit in L.M. v. Town of Middleborough that affirms a Massachusetts school’s decision to forbid a middle school student from wearing two T-shirts to school that say, “There are only two genders” and “There are [censored] genders”: “Students don’t lose their free speech rights the moment they walk into a school building. This case isn’t about T-shirts; it’s about a public school telling a ...

ADF attorneys available for media interviews following oral argument Monday

The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel and Senior Vice President of Corporate Engagement Jeremy Tedesco regarding a unanimous decision by the U.S. Supreme Court Thursday in National Rifle Association of America v. Vullo, in which the court ruled that the NRA’s case alleging that the state of New York pressured banks and insurance companies to cease doing business with them could move forward: “American democracy operates best when all viewpoints are respected and allowed to exist in the marketplace of ideas. When government officials try to punish ...

The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Tyson Langhofer, director of the ADF Center for Academic Freedom, regarding a friend-of-the-court brief ADF attorneys filed Wednesday with the Supreme Court of North Carolina in Mitchell v. The University of North Carolina Board of Governors, a case in which a college professor is challenging his termination from employment simply because he sent a letter to a colleague that was critical of her decision to deny funding for the professor and students to attend an academic conference: “American democracy thrives ...

ADF attorneys file federal lawsuit against state official on behalf of two pro-life pregnancy centers, network of affiliated centers

The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel and Vice President for Appellate Advocacy John Bursch regarding a friend-of-the-court brief ADF attorneys filed Friday asking the U.S. Supreme Court to grant review in Villarreal v. Alaniz, a case in which a citizen journalist is challenging government officials who claim they can evade responsibility after violating her First Amendment rights: “All government officials have a duty to uphold the Constitution, and they are not immune from being held responsible if they illegally punish a citizen simply because ...

Texas school district sues over radical Title IX reinterpretation that jeopardizes students’ privacy, safety, fairness

Policy change underscores financial giant’s key progress in protecting free speech, religious freedom as ADF rates 85 companies in third year of Business Index