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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.faithandfreedomsunday.net/news/pressrelease.aspx?cid=4787 - 3k - 1/6/2009
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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.faithandfreedomsunday.net/news/pressrelease.aspx?cid=4785 - 3k - 1/6/2009
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ADF attorneys successfully halt censorship of pro-life advocates in Ohio
A federal court has ruled that an Ohio town violated the First Amendment rights of pro-life advocates when police officers threatened them with arrest for engaging in pro-life speech. Attorneys with the Alliance Defense Fund filed a federal lawsuit against the city of Findlay on behalf of the pro-life advocates.
http://www.faithandfreedomsunday.net/news/pressrelease.aspx?cid=4784 - 3k - 1/6/2009
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Univ. of Wis. Hospitals secret plan to perform second-trimester abortions unveiled
Attorneys with the Alliance Defense Fund sent a letter to University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics Tuesday, asking that the institution refrain from implementing its secret and potentially illegal plans to perform second-trimester abortions in a jointly-operated clinic. The plan would likely compel unwilling employees to aid or participate in dismembering preborn babies, which would violate their religious conscience rights and may constitute an unlawful state funding of abortion.
http://www.faithandfreedomsunday.net/news/pressrelease.aspx?cid=4783 - 3k - 1/6/2009
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ADF defends Wis. marriage amendment against renewed attack
Attorneys with the Alliance Defense Fund filed a friend-of-the-court brief Monday on behalf of the Wisconsin Family Council to protect the Wisconsin marriage amendment after an appeal was filed challenging its constitutionality.
http://www.faithandfreedomsunday.net/news/pressrelease.aspx?cid=4782 - 3k - 1/2/2009
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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.faithandfreedomsunday.net/news/pressrelease.aspx?cid=4781 - 3k - 12/31/2008
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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.faithandfreedomsunday.net/news/pressrelease.aspx?cid=4779 - 4k - 12/22/2008
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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.faithandfreedomsunday.net/news/pressrelease.aspx?cid=4776 - 4k - 12/10/2008
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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.faithandfreedomsunday.net/news/pressrelease.aspx?cid=4775 - 2k - 12/10/2008
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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.faithandfreedomsunday.net/news/pressrelease.aspx?cid=4774 - 3k - 12/9/2008
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