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ADF attorneys represent female athlete who will help defend WV’s Save Women’s Sports Act.

ADF attorneys, along with West Virginia, Idaho, file two separate petitions with high court in two women’s sports cases

WHO: Alliance Defending Freedom client and former West Virginia college athlete Lainey Armistead WHAT: Speaking at West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey’s press conference updating the status of the case B.P.J. v. West Virginia State Board of Education, in which West Virginia is seeking to have its law protecting women’s sports upheld WHEN: 1:30 p.m. EDT, Thursday, July 11 WHERE: West Virginia Attorney General's Library, 1900 Kanawha Blvd. East, Charleston, or view the livestream. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: To schedule an interview, contact ADF Deputy Director of Media Relations ...

The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Legal Counsel Rachel Rouleau regarding an announcement Wednesday from West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey that his office and Lainey Armistead, a former West Virginia collegiate athlete represented by Alliance Defending Freedom, will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to hear B.P.J. v West Virginia State Board of Education, a case in which the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit ruled earlier this month, undermining West Virginia’s ability to protect fairness in women’s sports: “Women and girls deserve to compete on ...

The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Legal Counsel Rachel Rouleau regarding a decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit Tuesday in B.P.J. v. West Virginia State Board of Education that strips West Virginia of its ability to protect fairness in women’s sports: “Women and young girls deserve to compete on a level playing field. The court’s decision undermines equal opportunities and contradicts both biological reality and common sense. Title IX was designed to provide women with fair competition, and West Virginia’s women’s sports law does the same ...

ADF attorneys available for media interviews following hearing Friday

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15 friend-of-the-court briefs filed with 4th Circuit in support of state law protecting female athletes

The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Christiana Kiefer regarding the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision Thursday to leave in place for now a federal appeals court’s temporary injunction that prevents West Virginia from enforcing its validly enacted law protecting women’s sports while the case continues in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit: “Today’s decision didn’t end this case. While we hoped the Supreme Court would lift the injunction that the 4th Circuit imposed—with no explanation—on West Virginia’s women’s sports law, we remain ...

Multiple friend-of-the-court briefs filed with high court in support of WV’s women’s sports law