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Yesterday, the Honorable John C. Gastelum, the California Superior Court judge in Santa Ana overseeing the contentious lawsuit between Urth Caffe in Laguna Beach and seven Muslim women, ruled definitively that Urth Caffe’s countersuit for trespass will continue, and he set a date for a jury trial in early September…

Today, the American Freedom Law Center, in cooperation with the Thomas More Society of Chicago, filed a federal civil rights lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan against the City of Westland, its Chief of Police, several police officers, the Northland Family Planning Clinic, its…

Yesterday, the Urth Caffe in Laguna Beach filed its brief and evidentiary proofs supporting its lawsuit countersuing seven Muslim women for trespass.  The trespass claim followed on the heels of a lawsuit filed by the seven women claiming they were subjected to religious discrimination when the Urth Caffe asked them…

It is fitting that on election day the American Freedom Law Center (AFLC) filed its petition for writ of certiorari in the U.S. Supreme Court, asking the high Court to review its case against President Barack Obama and several of his executive agencies for engaging in unlawful executive action that…

On October 25th, Robert Muise, Senior Counsel at the American Freedom Law Center (AFLC), will present oral argument before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, which is located in New York City, on behalf of Joelle Silver, a public school teacher and devout Christian who was forced…

Detroit, Michigan (September 28, 2016) — Today, a federal judge in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan entered final judgment in favor of a group of Christian evangelists who were violently attacked by a hostile Muslim mob while preaching at the Arab Festival in Dearborn, Michigan…

On July 13, 2016, the American Freedom Law Center (AFLC) filed a federal lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, challenging Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (CDA) under the First Amendment. Section 230 provides immunity from lawsuits to Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, thereby permitting…

On June 22, 2016, the Urth Caffe in Laguna Beach responded to a fraudulent lawsuit filed by seven Muslim women claiming religious discrimination by countersuing the women and alleging abuse of process.  The countersuit was filed by the American Freedom Law Center (AFLC), a national public interest law firm retained…

The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit today unanimously reversed a trial court’s ruling dismissing a fraud case brought against the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).  The result of the appellate court’s ruling is that CAIR National, operating out of the District of Columbia, must…

On May 16, the U.S. Supreme Court denied Wayne County’s petition for writ of certiorari, which asked the high court to review the Bible Believers case.  This denial ends any further substantive challenges to this important First Amendment ruling. In October 2015, a majority of the full court of the…