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(New York – May 12, 2020) – Today, the American Freedom Law Center (AFLC), a national public interest law firm, filed an emergency motion for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York against New York City Mayor Bill…

(New York – May 7, 2020) – Today, the American Freedom Law Center (AFLC), a national public interest law firm, filed a federal civil rights lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York against New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and his police commissioner.…

(Minneapolis, MN – May 5, 2020) – Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison recently intervened in the lawsuit filed by the American Freedom Law Center (AFLC) last November on behalf of Sally Ness, a grandmother who was tired of the City of Bloomington’s failure to enforce its own ordinances against a…

(Grand Rapids, MI – April 27, 2020) – Today, a federal judge signed a stipulated order granting all of the relief requested by the American Freedom Law Center (AFLC) in its expedited motion for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction filed in its federal civil rights lawsuit against Michigan…

(Lansing, MI) – Today, the American Freedom Law Center, a national public interest law firm, filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer and several county prosecutors, challenging certain provisions of Governor Whitmer’s recent executive order, Executive Order 2020-42. The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District…

BREAKING NEWS (April 14, 2020): In our lawsuit against Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer on behalf of three pro-lifers, the district court judge just signed a stipulated order that (1) protects the pro-lifers’ First Amendment rights from infringement by the Governor’s executive orders and (2) dismisses the criminal citation against pro-lifer…

(Lansing, MI) – Late last night, the American Freedom Law Center, a national, public interest law firm, filed a civil rights lawsuit against Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer and the City of Detroit, challenging the constitutionality of the Governor’s Executive Order 2020-21 (“Shelter in Place” Order) as applied to criminalize the…

In 1971, the U.S. Supreme Court stated the following: “In times of unrest, whether caused by crime or racial conflict or fear of internal subversion [or, we would add, fear of a pandemic], this basic law [the Fourth Amendment right against unlawful search and seizures] and the values that it…

(Washington, D.C. – January 27, 2020)—Today, the American Freedom Law Center (AFLC) filed a “friend of the court” brief in the U.S. Supreme Court in support of a petition filed by Indiana officials asking the high court to review and reverse a decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for…

(Kalamazoo, Michigan – January 15, 2020)—Today, the Honorable Paul L. Maloney, a federal judge sitting in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan, denied motions to dismiss the federal civil rights lawsuit filed by the American Freedom Law Center (AFLC) against Dana Nessel, the Attorney General of…