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Tomorrow morning (January 15, 2016), David Yerushalmi, Senior Counsel at the American Freedom Law Center, 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 Pamela Geller, Robert Spencer, and their non-profit organization, American Freedom Defense…

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…

As 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…

On 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…

Today (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…

Late 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…

On 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…

On 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…

On 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…

Today, 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…