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- ALBANY, N.Y. — After nearly two hours of oral argument, a federal judge refused yesterday to dismiss a civil rights lawsuit brought against New York officials for excluding a pro-adoption group from its specialty license plate program. “New York’s specialty license plate scheme is subject to rampant abuse,” said Alliance Defense Fund attorney Mike Johnson, who argued before the court on behalf of The Children First Foundation, the organization that brought the suit, The Children First Foundation, et al., v. Raymond P. Martinez, et al., in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of ...
- DMV officials repeatedly reject pro-adoption group’s license plate design while approving the designs of other organizations
- Church brought to brink of extinction after being zoned out of its building, ADF attorneys secure consent order, road to settlement
- ADF attorneys file lawsuit against school district for denying Christian student club equal treatment
- ADF attorneys filed suit on behalf of WyWatch Family Action
- The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defense Fund Senior Counsel David Cortman regarding today’s decision by the U.S. Supreme Court not to review the case Alpha Delta Chi v. Reed, involving a Christian sorority and fraternity at San Diego State University told they must be willing to accept atheists as leaders: “Public universities should encourage, not censor, the free exchange of ideas. But for now, the supposed marketplace of ideas at San Diego State University will remain a stronghold for censorship. We wish the Supreme Court would have used this opportunity to make clear that ...
- ADF files lawsuit to challenge tax assessed against church but not other charitable groups
- Town of Gilbert amends sign code but perpetuates discrimination against churches; ADF amends lawsuit on behalf of church
- The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defense Fund Legal Counsel Dale Schowengerdt regarding the decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit to declare the federal Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional in Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and Gill v. Office of Personnel Management: “Society should protect and strengthen marriage, not undermine it. The federal Defense of Marriage Act provides that type of protection, and we trust the U.S. Supreme Court will reverse the 1st Circuit’s erroneous decision.” “In allowing one ...
- Case sent back to lower court to decide whether town ordinance unconstitutionally favors non-commercial signs that aren’t religious