Cases

In 2015, CAIR Florida, Inc. filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against TEOTWAWKI Investments, LLC, the company that owns and operates Florida Gun Supply, because its owner declared his retail gun supply store a “Mulsim Free Zone” following the Chattanooga, Tennessee terrorist attack in which five servicemembers were gunned down.…

On July 1, 2015, the American Freedom Law Center (AFLC) filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) for refusing to run a “Support Free Speech” advertisement that depicted the winning entry of the “Draw Mohammad Contest” recently held in Garland, Texas. The lawsuit…

On April 29, 2015, the American Freedom Law Center filed a civil rights lawsuit against The Irvine Company, the owner of the Irvine Spectrum Center and Fashion Island, two large shopping centers located in Orange County, alleging that the Company violated California’s liberty of speech provision by banning anti-abortion signs…

On December 31, 2013, Jeffrey Cutler, acting pro se, filed a federal lawsuit against the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the United States Department of the Treasury, the HHS Secretary, and the Treasury Secretary in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia (case…

On October 1, 2014, AFLC filed a civil rights lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York against the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority (“MTA”), the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the MTA, and the Director of the MTA Real Estate Department, on behalf…

On September 18, 2014, the American Freedom Law Center (AFLC) filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) for refusing to run a “Stop the Islamic Jew-Hatred” advertisement on SEPTA property.  The lawsuit was filed in the United States District Court for the Eastern District…

The American Freedom Law Center (AFLC) filed a federal lawsuit on July 4, 2014, in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia against President Barack Obama and several of his executive agencies for engaging in unlawful executive action that exceeds the authority of the Executive Branch and…

The American Freedom Law Center (AFLC) is representing seven private citizens who were issued harassing subpoenas by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) because they publicly expressed their opposition to the construction of an Islamic center in their neighborhood in Pittsfield Township, Michigan. In 2012, the Muslim Community Association of…

In October 2013, the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA), which provides public transportation throughout Massachusetts, including to millions of riders in the Greater Boston area, accepted for display on its advertising space an anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian advertisement that appeared on approximately 80 posters throughout the transit system.  That advertisement depicted four maps that…

On October 7, 2013, the American Freedom Law Center (AFLC) filed a federal civil rights lawsuit in Washington federal court on behalf of the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI) and its co-founders, Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer, against King County, Washington, for refusing to run an anti-terrorism advertisement on its…