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- ADF attorneys represent ProtectMarriage.com
- ADF attorneys filed motion to intervene in federal court on behalf of ProtectMarriage.com
- MADISON, Wis. — Alliance Defense Fund attorneys together with allied attorneys representing Wisconsin Family Action board members filed an original action lawsuit with the Wisconsin Supreme Court Thursday to stop the governor and state legislature from skirting a voter-approved constitutional amendment protecting marriage. The lawsuit asks the high court to halt the state’s “domestic partnership” scheme because it creates a legal status identical or substantially similar to that of marriage, which directly violates Article 13, Section 13, of the state constitution. “Politicians shouldn’t be ...
- ADF attorneys represented taxpayers
- Photo artist told by civil rights commission to pay over $6,600 in attorneys’ fees for declining to photograph same-sex ceremony
- Court rules that district court erred in setting aside Supreme Court precedent upholding federal prosecution of hardcore obscenity
- SAN FRANCISCO — Today the California Supreme Court handed a huge victory to the millions of California voters who passed Proposition 22 and oppose same-sex "marriage." The court ruled 7-0 that the mayor and county clerk of San Francisco exceeded their authority when they defied state law and issued "marriage" licenses to same-sex couples. The court also ruled 5-2 that because San Francisco issued the licenses illegally, they are invalid. "The justices have restored the rule of law in California," said Alliance Defense Fund Senior Counsel Jordan Lorence, who argued the case Lewis v. Alfaro ...
- SAN FRANCISCO—Attorneys with the Alliance Defense Fund will be available to the media for comment on the California Supreme Court decision in the case of Lewis v. Alfaro. ADF Senior Counsel Jordan Lorence, who argued before the California Supreme court in the case, will issue a statement and hold a press conference on the steps of the courthouse building at 10:30 a.m. Thursday. According to ADF Chief Counsel Benjamin Bull, Lewis v. Alfaro is a critical case for the rule of law in California and the nation. "The question in this case is whether elected public officials have to uphold and ...
- SAN FRANCISCO, CA—Attorneys with the Alliance Defense Fund will be available to the media at the California Supreme Court Tuesday to comment on oral arguments in the case of Lewis v. Alfaro. ADF Chief Counsel Benjamin Bull will be in San Francisco at the courthouse, as will ADF Senior Counsel Jordan Lorence and ADF Senior Counsel Glen Lavy. According to Chief Counsel Benjamin Bull, Lewis v. Alfaro, the original action filed by ADF in the California Supreme Court, is a critical case for the rule of law in California and the nation. "The San Francisco mayor cannot unilaterally declare a ...
- 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 ...