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On May 20th, a sharply divided U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit denied Priests for Life’s petition to rehear en banc (full court) its legal challenge to the HHS mandate. Three circuit judges dissented from this decision. The American Freedom Law Center (AFLC) is representing Priests for Life…

Today, 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 that it claims…

On April 21, a federal court ruled that New York City’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) violated the First Amendment by refusing to run the “Hamas Killing Jews” advertisement displayed below and must therefore display the advertisement on MTA buses. The ad’s sponsors, Pamela Geller, Robert Spencer, and the American Freedom…

This term, the United States Supreme Court will address the issue of whether the Fourteenth Amendment requires a state to license a marriage between two people of the same sex.  In other words, the Court will decide whether the Constitution requires so-called “same-sex marriage.” Given the extreme importance of this…

Today, a hearing will be held in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on the American Freedom Law Center’s (AFLC) motion for a preliminary junction, which asks the court to enter an order requiring New York City’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) to run a “Hamas…

Late yesterday, a federal judge sitting in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania granted the American Freedom Law Center’s (AFLC) motion for a preliminary injunction, holding that the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority’s (SEPTA) refusal to run a “Stop the Islamic Jew-Hatred” advertisement on its advertising…

Judge Paul Friedman, the federal judge presiding over a five-year old lawsuit alleging that the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) defrauded dozens of Muslim and non-Muslim clients, issued a shocking ruling when he summarily dismissed the lawsuit, which was brought in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.…

  Today, the American Freedom Law Center asked the Supreme Court to reverse a lower court decision upholding a school district’s ban on the wearing of American flag shirts on a high school campus on Cinco de Mayo fearing that Mexican students might respond violently.  You can read more about…

Late last Friday, the American Freedom Law Center (AFLC) filed a motion for preliminary junction asking United States District Court for the Southern District of New York to require New York City’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) to run a “Hamas Killing Jews” advertisement on MTA buses.  The motion followed on…

Late yesterday, a federal judge in Philadelphia ruled that an “expert” hired by the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) may not testify that an “Islamic Jew-Hatred” advertisement submitted by the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI) was false.  The advertisement stated, in relevant part, “Islamic Jew-Hatred: It’s in the Quran” and…