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1. ADF: Court should reject ACLU demand to end popular school program
Alliance Defense Fund attorneys filed a friend-of-the-court brief Monday on behalf of Associated Churches of Huntington County in defense of the county's school district.  A parent represented by the American Civil Liberties Union filed suit seeking to prevent eight of the county's elementary schools from continuing to allow a non-taxpayer-funded religious education program to meet on campus.
http://www.alliancedefensefund.org/news/pressrelease.aspx?cid=4787 - 3k - 1/6/2009
2. CLS attorney available to media following hearing in Christian school expulsion case
An attorney with the Christian Legal Society will be available for media interviews outside the California Court of Appeal building in Riverside immediately following Wednesday’s hearing in Doe v. California Lutheran High School, a lawsuit threatening the religious freedom of Christian schools.
http://www.alliancedefensefund.org/news/pressrelease.aspx?cid=4785 - 3k - 1/6/2009
3. Christian fliers no longer banned, Maricopa School District settles suit
Maricopa Unified School District officials have changed the district’s literature distribution policy and now allows equal treatment of Christian groups on campus. Alliance Defense Fund attorneys filed suit in July after a church and its pastor were told that they would not be permitted to distribute their fliers to students. The previous district policy had allowed a wide array of nonprofit organizations to distribute literature, but targeted religious material for exclusion.
http://www.alliancedefensefund.org/news/pressrelease.aspx?cid=4781 - 3k - 12/31/2008
4. Court: Gospel message stays on NY public highway
A Christian man represented by Alliance Defense Fund attorneys received a favorable ruling against the New York Department of Transportation in federal court Thursday, keeping it from forcibly removing a trailer bearing a gospel message on Daniel Burritt's private business property along a public highway.
http://www.alliancedefensefund.org/news/pressrelease.aspx?cid=4779 - 4k - 12/22/2008
5. Iowa to permit state employees to donate to faith-based charities
After a lawsuit by attorneys with the Christian Legal Society and Alliance Defense Fund, the Iowa Department of Administration has agreed to allow state employees to contribute to faith-based charities through its voluntary state employee charitable donation program.  The state corrected rules that excluded the charities from receiving voluntary donations through a payroll deduction system.  Employees will no longer be limited to non-religious charities as choices.
http://www.alliancedefensefund.org/news/pressrelease.aspx?cid=4776 - 4k - 12/10/2008
6. ADF-allied attorneys prepared to challenge Luxembourg assisted suicide law if passed
The Alliance Defense Fund is mobilizing efforts to judicially challenge a Luxembourg assisted suicide law if passed by the country’s parliament.  ADF-allied attorneys are willing to offer pro bono legal assistance to physicians willing to bring suit regarding the constitutionality of the law in the wake of efforts to strip the grand duke of his ability to enact or veto legislation in that country.
http://www.alliancedefensefund.org/news/pressrelease.aspx?cid=4775 - 2k - 12/10/2008
7. ADF: Ariz. shouldn’t block disabled students from using vouchers
The Arizona Supreme Court should reject the demands of an American Civil Liberties Union lawsuit seeking to prevent special needs children from using vouchers at private religious schools, say attorneys with the Alliance Defense Fund in a friend-of-the-court brief filed in the case, which the court heard Tuesday.  ADF attorneys joined attorneys from the law firm of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe in submitting the brief on behalf of a Christian school.
http://www.alliancedefensefund.org/news/pressrelease.aspx?cid=4774 - 3k - 12/9/2008
8. CLS attorney available to media following hearing in Christian fraternity case
An attorney with the Christian Legal Society will be available for media interviews outside the Elbert P. Tuttle Court of Appeals Building immediately following Wednesday's hearing in a federal lawsuit challenging unconstitutional discrimination by the University of Florida against a Christian fraternity.
http://www.alliancedefensefund.org/news/pressrelease.aspx?cid=4772 - 3k - 12/9/2008
9. ADF attorneys available to media after hearing over ‘JOHN316’ plates in Vt.
Alliance Defense Fund attorneys Jeremy Tedesco and David Cortman will be available for media interviews following Tedesco’s oral arguments in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit Monday in Byrne v. Rutledge.  ADF attorneys filed suit against Vermont Department of Motor Vehicles officials, arguing that they unconstitutionally denied a man’s application for a specialty plate because of its religious reference.
http://www.alliancedefensefund.org/news/pressrelease.aspx?cid=4769 - 3k - 12/5/2008
10. ADF-allied attorneys secure free speech for L.A. Jews for Jesus
The city of Los Angeles has agreed to settle a federal lawsuit filed by Alliance Defense Fund attorneys and allied attorneys on behalf of representatives of Jews for Jesus.  Police arrested a member of the group for handing out religious material outside of an event at a public park.
http://www.alliancedefensefund.org/news/pressrelease.aspx?cid=4768 - 3k - 12/3/2008
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