Washington, D.C. (April 25, 2012)--Today, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral argument on the constitutionality of Arizona’s controversial new immigration law.  When it does, it will have before it a “friend of the court” brief authored by American Freedom Law Center (AFLC) Co-Founders and Senior Counsel David Yerushalmi and Robert Muise.

To address the serious illegal immigration crisis, Arizona enacted the Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act (S.B. 1070) in 2010.  The law was immediately challenged by the Obama administration’s Department of Justice.  A federal judge in Arizona enjoined several provisions of S.B. 1070, and that ruling was upheld by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.  The Supreme Court will now decide the case.

Cincinnati, Ohio (April 19, 2012) -- Tomorrow, David Yerushalmi and Robert Muise, Co-Founders and Senior Counsel of the American Freedom Law Center (AFLC), are presenting oral argument in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in an appeal challenging the constitutionality of the AIG bailout.  The case, Murray v. United States Department of Treasury, et al., was brought by Yerushalmi and Muise, who are representing Kevin Murray, a taxpayer and former combat Marine who served in Iraq.  The three-judge panel that will hear the case includes Senior Judge Alan E. Norris, a Reagan appointee; Judge Eric L. Clay, a Clinton appointee; and Judge Richard Allen Griffin, a George W. Bush appointee.  The federal lawsuit alleges that the U.S. government’s takeover and financial bailout of AIG violates the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.

Ann Arbor, Michigan (April 12, 2012) – Today, the American Freedom Law Center filed its opening brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in defense of Crystal Dixon, a former human resources administrator at the University of Toledo in Ohio, who was fired in 2008 by the University for expressing her personal, Christian viewpoint on homosexuality in an op-ed published in the local newspaper.  Dixon is appealing a lower court’s dismissal of her case, which ruled that the University’s “diversity” interests outweighed her First Amendment rights.  AFLC Co-Founder and Senior Counsel Robert Muise is lead counsel for Dixon on the appeal. 

New York, New York (April 2, 2012) – Tomorrow at 10 a.m. EST, in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, Federal Judge Paul A. Engelmayer will hear live testimony and oral argument on a request for a preliminary injunction filed by the American Freedom Law Center (AFLC). AFLC attorneys are asking the court to halt the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s (MTA) restriction on an anti-jihad bus advertisement, claiming that the restriction violates their clients’ First Amendment right to freedom of speech. This motion is part of a lawsuit filed by AFLC on behalf of the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI), Pamela Geller, and Robert Spencer.

Washington, D.C. — Today (March 14, 2012), the American Freedom Law Center (AFLC) filed a “friend of the court” brief in the U.S. Supreme Court in defense of the Mount Soledad Veterans Memorial.  Specifically, AFLC is asking the Court to grant review and reverse the decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, which held that the Mt. Soledad memorial cross violated the Establishment Clause.  The brief was authored by AFLC Co-Founder and Senior Counsel Robert J. Muise.

San Francisco, California (February 29, 2012)—Today, the American Freedom Law Center (AFLC), on behalf of three students and their parents, filed its opening brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in a case challenging the constitutionality of a ban on the wearing of American flag shirts.  AFLC is asking the appellate court to reverse a decision by a lower federal court in San Francisco that upheld a school district’s ban on the wearing of American flag shirts on a California high school campus during Cinco de Mayo (May 5th)—a Mexican holiday—for fear of offending Mexican students.

New York (February 15, 2012)—Today, 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.

Washington, D.C. (February 13, 2012)—Today, the American Freedom Law Center (AFLC) filed a “friend of the court” brief in the U.S. Supreme Court in defense of Arizona’s new immigration law. To address the serious illegal immigration crisis, Arizona enacted the Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act (S.B. 1070) in 2010.The law was immediately challenged by the Obama administration’s Department of Justice.A federal judge in Arizona enjoined several provisions of S.B. 1070, and that ruling was upheld by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.The Supreme Court has decided to take up the case.

Michigan — (February 7, 2012)—Today, a U.S. District Court Judge in Detroit, Michigan denied the City of Dearborn’s request to dismiss the civil rights claims brought by several Christian missionaries arising out of their arrests by City police officers in 2010.  The Christians were arrested by City police officers while preaching to Muslims at the City’s Arab Festival.  The Christians spent the night in jail and were then charged and tried for “breaching the peace.”  American Freedom Law Center (AFLC) Senior Counsel Robert J. Muise won acquittals from a jury for all the Christian defendants at the conclusion of the criminal trial. 

New York — Today, the American Freedom Law Center (AFLC), on behalf of the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI), Pamela Geller, and Robert Spencer, filed a request for a preliminary injunction in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York against the New York Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA), seeking to halt MTA’s censorship of AFDI’s pro-Israel / anti-Jihad bus advertisement.