Tag: legal news and analysis

LIBERTY COUNSEL WASHINGTON, D.C. –  Planned Parenthood has refused to comply with President Trump’s Protect Life Rule and officially withdrew yesterday from the Title X Family Planning...

Legislature passed bill without supermajority required for revenue-raising bills ANDREW WIMER, INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE Las Vegas, Nev.—As Nevada students return to classrooms this week, some will...

JORDAN SEKULOW, ACLJ It’s stunning to think a state university would allow an anti-Israel, anti-Semitic conference. But it’s unconscionable that it would use tax dollars to...

HARRY G. HUTCHISON, ACLJ Harvard Law professor Laurence Tribe recently offered a stunningly false claim regarding abortion. He stated: White Supremacists oppose abortion because they fear it’ll...

Laura Beltz, Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) Chances are you’ve posted or sent something online that someone, somewhere, could consider “annoying.” Although a...

LIBERTY COUNSEL WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Trump administration has proposed a rule which protects faith-based organizations that contract with the federal government by allowing them to make...

JORDAN SEKULOW, ACLJ Earlier this year, the Trump Administration dealt a painful blow to Planned Parenthood and other abortion businesses through a new rule blocking millions from...

After a house guest was arrested, Granite City, Ill. police are now trying to evict everyone in the home: An innocent family with three...

LIBERTY COUNSEL NASHVILLE, TN – The Tennessee Senate Judiciary Committee heard testimonies this week for an amendment to a bill that would affirm that life begins at...

JOHN A. SPARKS, THE INSTITUTE FOR FAITH & FREEDOM A large cross erected in 1925 by Gold Star mothers in honor of their 49 fallen...

Laura Beltz, Foundation for Individual Rights in Education What’s the most common type of speech code in FIRE’s Spotlight database? The answer might surprise you. It’s...

Health Coach Plans to Appeal Decision to 11th Circuit Court of Appeals MATT POWERS, INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE Pensacola, Fl.—In a blow to entrepreneurs across the Sunshine...

JORDAN SEKULOW, ACLJ For over two decades the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) has been at the forefront of advancing and defending the...

Vegan food company Upton's Naturals and the Plant Based Food Association fight for First Amendment right to use terms consumers understand ANDREW WIMER, INSTITUTE FOR...

Walter M. Weber, ACLJ The ACLJ is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to grant review and pop the anti-speech bubbles the City of Chicago has enacted to...

JOHN A. SPARKS, THE INSTITUTE FOR FAITH & FREEDOM Among recent actions by the U.S. Supreme Court, a four-sentence order may set the stage for the court...

JOHN SAMPLES, CATO INSTITUTE The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has affirmed a district court’s ruling that Donald Trump may not block Americans from...

Walter M. Weber, ACLJ The American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) just filed a friend of the court brief in a civil tort case addressing the...

LIBERTY ALERTS, LIBERTY COUNSEL BOSTON, MA – Liberty Counsel has asked a federal district court to forgo a trial and order the city of Boston to allow...

LIBERTY ALERTS, EAGLE FORUM A Waste of SCOTUS Time This past week, the Supreme Court dealt a blow to “PC” (politically correct) culture in a 7-2...

Extensive Decade-Long Study Also Provides Fresh Evidence of 'Policing for Profit' in Federal Equitable Sharing Program ANDREW WIMER, INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE Arlington, Va.—A new Institute for...

LIBERTY ALERTS, LIBERTY COUNSEL WASHINGTON, D.C. -- In a victory for Sweet Cakes Bakery and Melissa and Aaron Klein, today the U.S. Supreme Court sent their case...

LIBERTY ALERTS, LIBERTY COUNSEL ORLANDO, FL -- Executives from more than 180 companies published a full-page ad of a letter yesterday in the New York Times which conveys...

Ruling vindicates Savannah guides in long-running free speech battle ANDREW WIMER, INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE Savannah, Ga.—Does the First Amendment allow cities to make it illegal to...

JORDAN SEKULOW, ACLJ There is nothing more innocent than a baby still growing in the mother’s womb. They don’t know anger. They don’t know hate....

LIBERTY ALERTS, LIBERTY COUNSEL MADISON, WI – School administrators allowed a male science teacher in Madison Metropolitan School District to show a personal “transgender coming out” video to every...

Walter M. Weber, ACLJ The U.S. Supreme Court today issued a decision (pp. 9-34) that upheld an Indiana law requiring the humane disposition of aborted babies. While...

LIBERTY ALERTS, LIBERTY COUNSEL The Louisiana House of Representatives yesterday passed 79-23, a “heartbeat bill” that will prohibit abortions after an unborn baby’s heartbeat is...

BY BOB BARR You can’t be tried twice for the same offense. The concept of being free from “double jeopardy” is a right that has...

Lawsuit seeks to stop Mandan, North Dakota, from removing mural CONOR BECK, INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE Last fall, August “Augie” Kersten, co-owner of the Lonesome Dove saloon...