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- ADF attorneys represent Catholic families in new lawsuit
- ADF won a lawsuit challenging the exclusion of religious schools from Vermont’s Dual Enrollment Program.
- The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel and Vice President of Appellate Advocacy John Bursch regarding a friend-of-the-court brief that ADF attorneys filed jointly at the U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday with lead counsel representing former and current National Football League players who support a high school football coach suspended for engaging in 30 seconds of personal prayer at the end of a game: “American citizens do not give up the right to personal prayer when they accept employment with a public employer. As our brief explains, the First ...
- Mayor Bowser lifts mask mandates across the district, but leaves them in place for children, teachers at religious schools
- Government officials continue to withhold tuition funds for students of private religious schools but offer them to nearly all other students
- A federal court ruled that Maryland officials violated Bethel Christian Academy’s First Amendment rights when they kicked it out of a school voucher program.
- ADF attorneys representing Peter Vlaming available to media following oral argument
- The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel and Vice President of Appellate Advocacy John Bursch regarding the commonwealth of Virginia’s decision to change its position in Carson v. Makin at the U.S. Supreme Court from opposing to supporting Maine families whom the state prohibited from participating in a state tuition program—designed for students who don’t have access to a local public school—because the private school alternatives they wish to attend are religious: “Religious freedom means the right to not only be a person of faith, but to also live ...
- The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel and Vice President of Appellate Advocacy John Bursch regarding the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to take Kennedy v. Bremerton School District, a case in which a high school football coach was suspended for engaging in 30 seconds of personal prayer at the end of a game: “As the friend-of-the-court brief we joined urging the Supreme Court to take this case explains, no right is more fundamental to our Constitution than the ability of every citizen to give personal thanks to God for the blessings of His provision ...
- The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Kate Anderson, director of the ADF Center for Parental Rights, regarding the Wisconsin Supreme Court’s decision Friday to take the case of a group of parents challenging a Madison Metropolitan School District policy that instructs district employees to assist children of any age, upon their request, to adopt an identity at odds with the child’s biological sex without notice to or consent from parents and to conceal from parents the fact that school personnel are doing this unless the child “consents” to the ...