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Ariz. town: No church meetings at home. Period.
Alliance Defense Fund attorneys filed an appeal Wednesday with the town of Gilbert’s zoning Board of Adjustment to overturn a decision banning churches from meeting, holding Bible studies, or having any other activities in private homes. The pastor of the seven-member Oasis of Truth Church received a cease-and-desist letter ordering him to terminate all religious meetings in his home, regardless of their size, nature, or frequency.
http://www.alliancedefensefund.org/news/pressrelease.aspx?cid=5229 - 5k - 3/12/2010
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ADF helps prevent shut-down of Wyo. Bible colleges
A new law signed by Wyoming Gov. Dave Freudenthal Wednesday fixes a poorly written state statute and prevents the state from intrusively regulating or closing down Bible colleges. Letters from the Alliance Defense Fund to officials with the Wyoming Department of Education on behalf of two Bible schools helped prompt the bill that led to the amendment.
http://www.alliancedefensefund.org/news/pressrelease.aspx?cid=5226 - 5k - 3/8/2010
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Court: Let the bells ring while Phoenix churches’ suit proceeds
Alliance Defense Fund attorneys secured a federal court order Wednesday that silences a city of Phoenix noise ordinance used to stop the ringing of church bells. St. Mark Roman Catholic Parish and Christ the King Liturgical Charismatic Church sued the city last September over its vague noise ordinance, which offers an exemption for ice cream trucks, but not for churches. The lawsuit came about after Bishop Rick Painter of Christ the King was sentenced to jail and probation last June for violating the ordinance by ringing his church’s bells as a traditional way of praising God.
http://www.alliancedefensefund.org/news/pressrelease.aspx?cid=5223 - 4k - 3/4/2010
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ADF delivers letter, USPS gets message: Censorship policy is unconstitutional
After receiving a letter from Alliance Defense Fund attorneys, the United States Postal Service sent a response letter Monday stating that it is no longer enforcing a policy that was used to ban a Christian man from peacefully handing out religious tracts to receptive passersby outside a Michigan post office. A postal worker told Michael Shanton on the sidewalk in front of the post office that he would be arrested if he did not leave the area. ADF attorneys contended in the letter that the regulation prohibiting him from distributing religious literature was too broadly applied, and therefore violated his right to free speech protected by the First Amendment.
http://www.alliancedefensefund.org/news/pressrelease.aspx?cid=5221 - 4k - 3/3/2010
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Court dismisses Shirley Dobson from lawsuit challenging National Day of Prayer
A federal judge issued an order Tuesday dismissing all claims against Shirley Dobson in a lawsuit alleging that government-issued proclamations encouraging citizens to pray are unconstitutional. Alliance Defense Fund attorneys filed a motion for summary judgment in the suit filed by the Freedom From Religion Foundation, and the court granted that motion. But it also granted FFRF’s motion, which allows it to challenge the statute permitting a national day of prayer.
http://www.alliancedefensefund.org/news/pressrelease.aspx?cid=5220 - 4k - 3/2/2010
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ADF attorney available to media after hearing in ‘Ask God what your grade is’ case
Alliance Defense Fund Litigation Staff Counsel David J. Hacker will be available for media interviews following his arguments at a hearing Wednesday in a lawsuit spurred by a Los Angeles Community College District professor who called a Christian student a “fascist bastard,” accused him of offending others, and wrote “Ask God what your grade is” on the student’s speech evaluation after he spoke about his faith during a classroom speech.
http://www.alliancedefensefund.org/news/pressrelease.aspx?cid=5218 - 4k - 3/2/2010
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ADF seeks to appeal conviction of NY Christian arrested while praying
Alliance Defense Fund attorneys have submitted an application to appeal the state’s conviction of a Christian arrested while praying in an Elmira public park during a 2007 ‘gay pride’ event. The status of the appeal is now in the hands of state’s highest court, the New York Court of Appeals. Earlier this month, a New York county court dismissed the convictions of three other Christians arrested and charged after praying at the same event.
http://www.alliancedefensefund.org/news/pressrelease.aspx?cid=5217 - 3k - 3/1/2010
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ADF attorneys to debate in NY, NC on Supreme Court case involving Christian student group
Alliance Defense Fund attorneys will participate in three law school debates next week sponsored by campus chapters of The Federalist Society on the subject of the U.S. Supreme Court case Christian Legal Society v. Martinez. Attorneys with ADF and the CLS Center for Law & Religious Freedom, who are litigating the case, represent a student chapter of CLS, which Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco refused to recognize because the group requires its officers and voting members to subscribe to its basic Christian beliefs.
http://www.alliancedefensefund.org/news/pressrelease.aspx?cid=5216 - 4k - 2/26/2010
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ADF files appeal of ruling barring prayer before Forsyth County board meetings
Alliance Defense Fund attorneys filed an appeal Wednesday of a district court decision that prevents the Forsyth County Board of Commissioners from opening public meetings with prayer that may mention a particular deity. ADF represents the board in a lawsuit filed in 2007 by the American Civil Liberties Union and Americans United for Separation of Church and State--a lawsuit that an overwhelming number of county residents have expressed they wish the county to fight.
http://www.alliancedefensefund.org/news/pressrelease.aspx?cid=5214 - 4k - 2/25/2010
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ADF attorneys appeal to U.S. Supreme Court to protect school choice in Ariz.
Alliance Defense Fund attorneys appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court Thursday, asking it to reverse a decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit that declared portions of a tuition tax credit program for students unconstitutional. ADF attorneys argue that the program--which allows state residents to claim a tax credit for donations to private organizations that provide scholarships to private schools--is constitutional because the program involves individual, private choices and funding, not government action or money.
http://www.alliancedefensefund.org/news/pressrelease.aspx?cid=5207 - 4k - 2/18/2010
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