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  • Pro-adoption license plate rejected as "patently offensive'
  • The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Legal Counsel Jeremy Tedesco regarding a federal court ruling in The Children First Foundation v. Fiala, which rejects a pro-adoption group’s application to sponsor a “Choose Life” specialty plate with the New York Department of Motor Vehicles: “Pro-adoption organizations should have the same speech rights as any other organization. While the district court affirmed this basic freedom, the circuit court denied free speech in favor of government censorship. The state doesn’t have the authority to target The Children ...
  • ADF successful in this round of defending civil rights lawsuit against New York DMV’s attempt to silence life-affirming message
  • 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
  • Federal court orders state to allow pro-adoption plates as part of decision in 7-year-old ADF lawsuit