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Broad support for Christian student group reflected in numerous briefs filed with Supreme Court
The U.S. Supreme Court received 22 friend-of-the-court briefs Thursday in support of a Christian Legal Society chapter’s lawsuit against California’s Hastings College of the Law. The briefs demonstrate the breadth and diversity of support for the group’s rights protected by the First Amendment, according to attorneys with the Alliance Defense Fund and CLS Center for Law & Religious Freedom who are litigating the case and filed their brief in the case on Jan. 28.
http://www.alliancedefensefund.org/news/pressrelease.aspx?cid=5196 - 4k - 2/8/2010
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ADF-allied attorney available to media at hearing over Ariz. laws protecting women
Deborah Sheasby, legal counsel with the Center for Arizona Policy and an Alliance Defense Fund allied attorney, will be available for media interviews following a hearing Friday in a lawsuit filed by Planned Parenthood that seeks to strike down two Arizona laws protecting the health and safety of women. The court granted ADF and CAP permission to file a friend-of-the-court brief in the case, but they are appealing the court’s decision to deny doctors, several organizations, and the bill’s sponsors the ability to intervene in the lawsuit to defend the laws. Friday’s hearing concerns the state’s motion to dismiss a portion of the lawsuit as well as a motion to intervene filed by the Arizona speaker of the House, who also wishes to defend the laws.
http://www.alliancedefensefund.org/news/pressrelease.aspx?cid=5192 - 5k - 2/5/2010
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Christians threatened with arrest in Richmond for sharing Gospel, lawsuit filed
Alliance Defense Fund allied attorney Steve Taylor filed a lawsuit Friday against the city of Richmond on behalf of five Christian men threatened with arrest for sharing their faith on public property and at public events. The suit alleges that police officers with the city violated the men’s First Amendment rights by demanding that they stop their “disturbing” and “offending” religious expression, which consisted of peacefully preaching to small groups, one-on-one witnessing, and handing out tracts.
http://www.alliancedefensefund.org/news/pressrelease.aspx?cid=5190 - 3k - 2/1/2010
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ADF attorney available to media after hearings in Phoenix church bell lawsuits
Alliance Defense Fund Senior Legal Counsel Erik Stanley will be available for media interviews Monday following oral arguments in an appeal of a Phoenix bishop given a suspended jail sentence for violating a noise ordinance because he rang church bells.
http://www.alliancedefensefund.org/news/pressrelease.aspx?cid=5189 - 4k - 1/29/2010
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Middle Tenn. St. Univ. drops discriminatory fees for student pro-life group after ADF letter
After receiving a letter from Alliance Defense Fund attorneys, Middle Tennessee State University has agreed to retract its discriminatory requirement that a pro-life student group pay a security fee for a campus display. ADF attorneys representing the student group, Pro-Life Collegians, argued that the fee was unconstitutional, noting that other student groups are not required to pay for campus security during their events.
http://www.alliancedefensefund.org/news/pressrelease.aspx?cid=5187 - 4k - 1/27/2010
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Immigration judge: German anti-homeschooling policy 'repellant to everything we believe as Americans’
A U.S. immigration court Tuesday granted political asylum to a German homeschooling family, finding that the German government’s persecution of the family violated the family’s basic human rights. The judge in the case reportedly called Germany’s anti-homeschooling policy "repellant to everything we believe as Americans" at a hearing held Thursday. The Alliance Defense Fund provided funding to the Home School Legal Defense Association for the case.
http://www.alliancedefensefund.org/news/pressrelease.aspx?cid=5186 - 4k - 1/27/2010
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ADF files brief asking court to affirm personhood of preborn children
Attorneys with the Alliance Defense Fund filed a friend-of-the-court brief Friday with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit asking the court to reject Planned Parenthood’s attempt to block portions of South Dakota’s informed consent law.
http://www.alliancedefensefund.org/news/pressrelease.aspx?cid=5181 - 4k - 1/25/2010
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Case dismissed: Man arrested for touching grass after sharing Gospel exonerated
A court has issued an order dismissing criminal charges against a New Jersey man whom police arrested after he shared the Gospel on a sidewalk outside a public high school after the end of the school day. At the request of the principal of Edison High School, Robert Parker was taken into custody after his toe touched the grass on the school’s side of the sidewalk. He was charged with trespass and disorderly conduct.
http://www.alliancedefensefund.org/news/pressrelease.aspx?cid=5173 - 3k - 1/19/2010
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Hartford officials agree to stop silencing constitutionally-protected speech
Alliance Defense Fund attorneys and city of Hartford officials have agreed to a settlement that will ensure the protection of citizens’ free speech rights in public areas. Hartford officials agreed to a permanent injunction against the use of a “breach of peace” statute and a “public disturbance” statute to infringe on constitutionally-protected speech. In 2006, ADF attorneys filed suit against the city on a behalf of a man arrested for sharing his Christian message in public.
http://www.alliancedefensefund.org/news/pressrelease.aspx?cid=5171 - 3k - 1/18/2010
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ADF attorneys to appeal court ruling denying DC voters’ right to decide marriage
On behalf of Pastor Harry Jackson and other voters, Alliance Defense Fund and Stand4MarriageDC attorneys will appeal a court decision issued Thursday that allows the District of Columbia Board of Elections and Ethics to deprive D.C. voters the right to decide the definition of marriage in the district.
http://www.alliancedefensefund.org/news/pressrelease.aspx?cid=5167 - 3k - 1/14/2010
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