Christian colleges fight lawsuit designed to strip their students of financial aid
Students stand to lose all federal tuition assistance because their schools follow Christian views Monday, Apr 12, 2021 EUGENE, Ore. – Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys representing three Christian post-secondary schools asked a federal district court Friday to allow them to intervene against a lawsuit that seeks to strip all students at private religious colleges of federal financial aid […]
6th Circuit upholds First Amendment rights of Shawnee State professor
ADF attorneys represent philosophy professor punished for declining to speak message contrary to his beliefs Friday, Mar 26, 2021 CINCINNATI – The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit ruled Friday in favor of Dr. Nicholas Meriwether, a philosophy professor at Shawnee State University, reversing a district court’s dismissal of his lawsuit against university officials. The university […]
Supreme Court: Govt officials must be held accountable when violating constitutional rights
ADF attorneys represent former Georgia Gwinnett College student prevented from engaging in free speech on campus Monday, Mar 8, 2021 WASHINGTON – The U.S. Supreme Court held Monday in Uzuegbunam v. Preczewski that government officials must be held accountable when they violate constitutionally protected freedoms. Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys represent Chike Uzuegbunam, who was prevented from sharing his faith on […]
Student group seeks to defend US Dept. of Ed. free speech protections
ADF attorneys represent Ratio Christi, which opposes attempt to kill rule that requires public colleges, universities to abide by First Amendment Thursday, Feb 18, 2021 WASHINGTON – Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys representing Christian student organization Ratio Christi filed a motion in federal court Thursday to intervene in defense of a U.S. Department of Education regulation which requires all […]
New York high school won’t accept pro-freedom student club
Harrison High School recognizes 33 different clubs but repeatedly denied conservative group access to resources, ability to recruit members Wednesday, June 03, 2020 HARRISON, N.Y. – Alliance Defending Freedom sent a letter Tuesday to officials with Harrison Central School District after they refused to officially recognize a conservative student club. The letter explains that the refusal to recognize […]
New initiative seeks to change unlawful policies at public colleges, universities
ADF sending letters on behalf of Young Americans for Liberty to 30 US schools, two of which have already made revisions WASHINGTON – Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys representing a non-partisan political student organization have launched a new legal effort to change unconstitutional policies at public colleges and universities across the country by sending 30 letters […]
ADF sues Univ. of N. Texas on behalf of math professor fired for joke about ‘microaggressions’
Department head said he didn’t agree with professor’s views, fired him immediately without following university’s own procedures SHERMAN, Texas – Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys filed suit in federal court Thursday on behalf of a University of North Texas professor in Denton fired for criticizing flyers about “microaggressions” that someone left anonymously in the mathematics department’s […]
Georgia Tech faces lawsuit for discriminating against MLK’s niece
Student government denied funding to club sponsoring Alveda King event because she is ‘inherently religious’ like her uncle ATLANTA – Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys representing the Students for Life chapter at Georgia Tech filed suit in federal court Wednesday after the university’s student government denied funding for a speaking event featuring Alveda King, the niece […]
Faith-based campus groups at U of Iowa: We have right to determine our leaders like others
ADF attorneys file friend-of-the-court brief at 8th Circuit ST. LOUIS – Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys, on behalf of faith-based campus organizations, filed a friend-of-the-court brief Monday with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit that asks it to uphold a district court’s ruling in favor of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship. That decision allows each […]
Atheists, Jews, Muslims, Catholics file support at US Supreme Court for student free speech rights
WASHINGTON – An ideologically diverse array of groups submitted friend-of-the-court briefs with the U.S. Supreme Court this week that ask it to take a case filed by Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys on behalf of two former college students seeking to vindicate their constitutionally protected freedoms. The parties supporting the former students include atheist, Jewish, Catholic, […]