The Legal Promise and Sobering Reality of the Fight for Free Speech on Campus
High-school athletes file suit to protect fairness in girls’ sports
ADF attorneys represent female track competitors marginalized by Connecticut’s allowance of boys in their events HARTFORD, Conn. – Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys representing three female high-school track competitors and their mothers filed suit in federal court Wednesday to challenge Connecticut’s policy of allowing males to compete in girls’ sports—a policy that robs female athletes of […]
Univ. of Wisconsin restricts student expression in public outdoor areas of campus
River Falls campus forbids student conversation without advance permission, student group recognition RIVER FALLS, Wis. – Alliance Defending Freedom sent a letter Tuesday to officials with University of Wisconsin–River Falls on behalf of a student after a school administrator informed her that she could not engage in expression in the public outdoor areas of campus without paying […]
Religious school groups: Our freedom to decide who teaches our faith should be respected
ADF files brief on behalf of Christian schools, associations asking Supreme Court to affirm their freedom from undue govt interference WASHINGTON – Alliance Defending Freedom, together with Troutman Sanders, one of the country’s largest and most respected law firms, filed a friend-of-the-court brief Monday with the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of several Christian education associations and a […]
Pro-life student group’s lawsuit prompts systemwide policy change at nation’s largest university
ADF attorneys represent Students for Life at Cal State–San Marcos SAN DIEGO – A federal lawsuit against California State University–San Marcos came to an end Tuesday after the university agreed to revise student fee policies and pay more than $240,000 in the wake of a federal court’s ruling last summer that found those policies unconstitutionally discriminated […]
ADF to Supreme Court: Students deserve justice in free speech suit against Georgia college
Students deserve justice in free speech suit against Georgia college Petition asks high court to weigh in on outlier 11th Circuit view that makes govt officials unaccountable for unconstitutional actions WASHINGTON – Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys representing two former students at Georgia Gwinnett College asked the U.S. Supreme Court Friday to hear their case and […]
Montclair State sued over unconstitutional speech policy, arbitrary favoritism toward student groups
ADF represents campus chapter of Young Americans for Liberty NEWARK, N.J. – A student and a student group represented by Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys filed a federal lawsuit against Montclair State University officials Wednesday after they forced students to stop peaceful, expressive activity without a permit. The lawsuit also challenges the university’s Bias Education Response […]
Victory: Previously censored, student pro-life club holds first event of 2020
ADF represents students at Gulf Coast High School in Florida Wednesday, January 15, 2020 NAPLES, Fla. – Students participating in a pro-life club held their first official event of 2020 on Monday afternoon, after their high school initially refused to recognize it as an official club because it was deemed too “controversial.” In November, Alliance Defending […]
Montana high school revokes student club’s official status because of religious beliefs
ADF represents students in letter to Bozeman High School, explains school’s violation of Constitution, federal law BOZEMAN, Mont. – Alliance Defending Freedom sent a letter last week to officials with Bozeman Public School District and Bozeman High School after they unlawfully revoked the Fellowship of Christian Athletes’ status as a school-sponsored club. The letter explains that […]
Doe v. Boyertown Area School District
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Supreme Court declined Tuesday to take up an important case involving a Pennsylvania school district that disregarded its students’ bodily privacy rights when it opened its high school locker rooms and restrooms to students of the opposite sex based on those students’ beliefs about their gender—and without informing students or parents of […]