Alliance Defending Freedom’s (ADF) lead counsel Erin Hawley holds a press conference after a U.S. Supreme Court hearing on oral arguments in U.S. Food and Drug Administration v. Alliance for the Abortion Pill on March 26. ADF is an alliance-building, non-profit legal organization committed to protecting religious freedom, free speech, parental rights, and the sanctity […]
A seventh-grade student decided to weigh in on a divisive topic concerning human sexuality, by wearing a T-shirt that read “There are only two genders.” His school then asked him to remove the shirt. NTDs Daniel Monaghan spoke with the Alliance Defending Freedom about the lawsuit that followed.
Virginia’s highest court ruled on Thursday in favor of a high school teacher who was fired after refusing to use one of his student’s preferred pronouns. The Virginia Supreme Court ruled that the fired high school French teacher, Peter Vlaming, had a valid legal claim that he was wrongfully terminated for refusing to use a […]
This week, a U.S. federal appeals court ruled that pro-life activists had convincingly argued that authorities in Washington violated their first amendment rights by selectively enforcing a law to punish pro-life writing in public while ignoring far more examples of similar behavior by Black Lives Matter (BLM) activists. Now, civil rights attorney Erin Hawley is […]
A federal appeals court has ruled that officials in the Washington D.C. local government could be sued for selectively enforcing a property defacement statute to punish pro-life activists who wrote a pro-life message in chalk on a city sidewalk, while ignoring similar but more permanent actions by Black Lives Matter (BLM) activists. In the summer […]
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) officials are proposing new federal regulations they claim will better protect the religion and conscience rights of individuals seeking or providing health care services. The proposed regulation—the Safeguarding the Rights of Conscience as Protected by Federal Statutes—was posted in the Federal Register on Dec. 29 for a 60-day […]
A teacher in Kansas has received a $95,000 settlement after she was suspended by her former employer for refusing to use a student’s preferred name and pronoun. Pamela Ricard, who had taught math at Fort Riley Middle School before she retired in May, was suspended for three days by the school in April 2021, and […]
On it’s surface, physician-assisted suicide sounds straightforward. Why shouldn’t a consenting adult be allowed to decide how and when to die, if death is imminent, and living is filled with pain and suffering? While it sounds simple, the moment you crack it open, all of the ethical, practical, medical, legal, and religious implications fly out […]
Students at Ball State University won a settlement after their pro-life student group was denied funding. Attorneys with the Alliance Defending Freedom helped the students win the settlement from their University. The students claim that their Students for Life club was denied $300 in funding for materials that offered resources to pregnant and parenting students, […]
