Captain Paul Fields has served honorably as a police officer on the City of Tulsa, Oklahoma Police Department for more than 17 years.  In early 2011, he was ordered to attend and to have the officers under his command attend a “Law Enforcement Appreciation Day” hosted by the Islamic Society of Tulsa.  The event was scheduled for Friday, March 4, 2011—Friday is the “holy day” or “Sabbath” for Islam.  The event involved “Mosque tours,” meeting “Local Muslims & Leadership,” watching the “weekly congregational prayer service,” and receiving presentations on Islamic “beliefs.”  When Captain Fields, a Christian, objected to the order on religious grounds, he was immediately stripped of his command, transferred to another division, and subjected to an internal investigation.  Following the investigation, he was suspended without pay for two weeks and his punitive transfer was made permanent.

AFLC Co-Founders and Senior Counsel David Yerushalmi and Robert Muise have advanced a constitutional challenge to the use of taxpayer money to fund the Islamic religious activities promoted by AIG.

On February 15, 2012, the American Freedom Law Center (AFLC), along with co-counsel and civil rights attorney Charles S. LiMandri, filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, challenging the constitutionality of the Obama administration’s “contraception” mandate.  The lawsuit was filed on behalf of Priests for Life, a national, Catholic, pro-life organization based in New York.

AFLC Co-Founders and Senior Counsel David Yerushalmi and Robert Muise are defending the Center for Security Policy and several of its employees, who were sued by CAIR for conducting an undercover documentary designed to expose the Islamic organization's improper activities.

Crystal Dixon, a devout Christian and an African American, was the Associate Vice President for Human Resources at the University of Toledo.  In 2008, the Toledo Free Press ran an op-ed comparing the so-called struggles of homosexuals with the civil rights struggles of African Americans.  Ms. Dixon objected to the comparison and wrote her own, personal opinion piece in response.  For expressing her religious beliefs in the newspaper, she was fired.  Prior to her article appearing in the paper, a University Vice Provost had previously made published, public statements in a local paper claiming that people who do not support domestic partner registry are “bigots,” and if they are religious, they are “religious bigots.”  The Vice Provost was not fired for expressing her anti-Christian views.

AFLC Co-Founders and Senior Counsel David Yerushalmi and Robert Muise, on behalf of the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI), Pamela Geller, and Robert Spencer, filed a federal civil rights lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York against the New York Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) for violating their First Amendment right to freedom of Speech.

AFLC Co-Founders and Senior Counsel David Yerushalmi and Robert Muise are representing the Center for Bio-Ethical Reform, Inc. (CBR), a pro-life organization that was sued for copyright infringement by Northland Family Planning Clinic, an abortion provider, because CBR made fair use of Northland's pro-abrtion video to counter its deceptive message.

The American Freedom Law Center is representing Christian missionaries who were jailed for preaching the Gospel to Muslims at an Arab Festival in Dearborn, Michigan.  This case is a prime example of the "civilization jihad" being waged within our borders.

As soon as President Obama signed the new healthcare reform act (Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act) into law on March 23, 2010, AFLC Co-Founders and Senior Counsel David Yerushalmi and Robert Muise electronically filed the first federal lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the Act.  The case was filed in federal court in Detroit, Michigan. 

On October 28, 2009, President Barack Obama signed into law the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, commonly known as the “Hate Crimes Act”.  On February 2, 2010, Gary Glenn, president of the American Family Association of Michigan, and Michigan-based pastors Levon Yuille, Rene Ouellette, and James Combs filed a lawsuit against U.S. Attorney General Eric H. Holder, Jr., challenging its constitutionality.