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- NEW YORK – The New York City school system has repeatedly slammed the door on church requests to rent meeting space. But the Bronx Household of Faith, a church armed with last summer’s precedent in Good News Club v. Milford, will be knocking on the door again next week in federal court. Most school systems don’t mind renting space to community groups. That is, unless you’re the New York City school system and the community group is a church. Even though churches across the country are able to rent space from public school systems, the Bronx Household of Faith must go to court to do that. In ...
- HOUSTON – What’s a politically correct university campus to do when seeking to deter freedom of speech on campus? Tell those who dare to trespass on campus orthodoxy they must pay special fees for security guards at their events, fees other groups don’t have to pay. That’s what happened to the Pro-Life Cougars, a University of Houston student group named after the school mascot. The Pro-Life Cougars sought permission to hold two events on campus: Concert for Life on March 20 and 21, and an event featuring Norma McCorvey on April 4, 2001. McCorvey, now a pro-life advocate, is the Jane Roe of ...
- Court says university did not violate Christian students’ First Amendment rights; case goes to 9th Circuit
- Four Christian student groups pressured to accept members and leaders that do not share their beliefs
- ADF attorneys stop attempt by American Atheists to remove roadside memorial crosses
- Participating pastors will exercise First Amendment right to speak on positions of electoral candidates Sept. 28
- 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