Today, a Florida federal court order dismissing a lawsuit filed by CAIR Florida against Florida Gun Supply became final and is no longer appealable because CAIR failed to file its notice of appeal by Monday, December 28—30 days after the court issued its order. In the lawsuit, CAIR alleged that…
Read MoreAs a kind of Christmas present to liberty and the U.S. Constitution, the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals, sitting en banc (the entire court), today reversed more than 30-years of jurisprudence by holding that trademark registration under the Lanham Act deserves First Amendment protection. The import of this holding is…
Read MoreOn December 17, 2015, Federal Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, sitting in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, denied the Council on American-Islamic Relation’s (CAIR) motion to reopen discovery in what has become known as the Muslim Mafia Trial. CAIR, which bills itself as “America’s largest Muslim civil liberties…
Read MoreToday (November 24, 2015), a Florida federal judge granted a motion to dismiss filed by the American Freedom Law Center (AFLC), dismissing a lawsuit filed by CAIR Florida against AFLC’s client, Florida Gun Supply. In the lawsuit, CAIR alleged that Florida Gun Supply’s refusal to equip Islamic terrorists is religious…
Read MoreLate last Friday (November 6), the U.S. Supreme Court granted the American Freedom Law Center’s (AFLC) petition for writ of certiorari, agreeing to review AFLC’s challenge to the HHS “contraceptive services” mandate brought on behalf of Priests for Life and several of its executives, including Father Frank Pavone, the national…
Read MoreOn October 28, 2015, a majority of the full court of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ruled 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. Video of the…
Read MoreOn October 9, 2015, lawyers for Pamela Geller, Robert Spencer, and their non-profit organization, American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI), filed their reply brief in their appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, appealing a federal district court’s ruling that “dissolved” the court’s earlier order requiring the…
Read MoreOn September 30th, the American Freedom Law Center (AFLC) filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit filed by CAIR Florida against AFLC’s client, Florida Gun Supply. In this lawsuit, CAIR claims that Florida Gun Supply’s refusal to equip Islamic terrorists is religious discrimination in violation of Title II of the…
Read MoreToday, the American Freedom Law Center filed its opening brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in its lawsuit challenging President Obama’s unlawful executive orders regarding the implementation and enforcement of Obamacare. On July 4, 2014, AFLC filed this action in the U.S. District Court for…
Read MoreToday (August 28, 2015), U.S. Magistrate Judge David Grand sanctioned the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and ordered it to pay $9,000 in legal fees to the American Freedom Law Center (AFLC), after AFLC successfully “quashed” harassing and burdensome subpoenas issued by CAIR to Ms. Zaba Davis, a private citizen…
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