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ADF, CLS focus attention on rights of conscience in health care battle
In a busy week of debate in Washington over health care reform, attorneys with the Alliance Defense Fund are moving forward with efforts in four different lawsuits to ensure that conscience protections for health care workers are not ignored. ADF is working together with the Christian Legal Society’s Center for Law & Religious Freedom in three of those efforts.
http://dev.alliancedefensefund.org/news/pressrelease.aspx?cid=5236 - 5k - 3/19/2010
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Pa. school district lifts ban on 'Abortion is not Healthcare’ T-shirt after ADF lawsuit
Attorneys with the Alliance Defense Fund have secured a favorable settlement with the West Shore School District on behalf of a middle school student who was ordered to remove a T-shirt donning the message “Abortion is not Healthcare.”
http://dev.alliancedefensefund.org/news/pressrelease.aspx?cid=5235 - 4k - 3/17/2010
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Word to Pa.’s highest court: People with disabilities not better off dead
The Alliance Defense Fund and allied attorneys filed a friend-of-the-court brief Monday with Pennsylvania’s highest court on behalf of a mentally disabled patient, arguing that his legal guardians should not be allowed to deny him life-sustaining treatment while he is in a stable and conscious condition. The legal guardians of David Hockenberry, a 50-year-old man with acute mental retardation since birth, unsuccessfully attempted to deny him temporary life-sustaining medical treatment for pneumonia and have appealed to the high court for the right to refuse such treatment in the future.
http://dev.alliancedefensefund.org/news/pressrelease.aspx?cid=5231 - 4k - 3/16/2010
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Appeal filed to free Abortion Consent Act from Ariz. court order, abortionists drop federal suit
Attorneys with the Alliance Defense Fund and Center for Arizona Policy have appealed an Arizona judge’s order to halt new state laws protecting the health and safety of women while a lawsuit filed by Planned Parenthood moves forward in state court. At the same time, a Tucson abortion facility represented by the Center for Reproductive Rights is making the rare move of dropping its federal lawsuit against the same laws after both a district and appellate court rejected its request for an injunction. The Bioethics Defense Fund and Life Legal Defense Fund are co-counsel in both cases.
http://dev.alliancedefensefund.org/news/pressrelease.aspx?cid=5227 - 5k - 3/8/2010
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Counselors arrested and threatened for sharing pro-life message reach settlement with Pa. city
Alliance Defense Fund allied attorneys and ADF attorneys secured a favorable settlement with the city of York Tuesday on behalf of two counselors who were kept from sharing their pro-life message with individuals in a public alley next to a Planned Parenthood abortion facility. Edward Snell and John McTernan, who were arrested and threatened with arrest, respectively, for exercising their First Amendment rights, were represented by ADF attorneys and allied attorneys in two separate lawsuits against the city of York.
http://dev.alliancedefensefund.org/news/pressrelease.aspx?cid=5222 - 3k - 3/3/2010
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Appeal challenges $18 million in contracts awarded to Colo. abortionists
Alliance Defense Fund attorneys and allied attorneys Tuesday appealed the decision of a Colorado court to dismiss a lawsuit challenging $18 million in illegal state contracts awarded over the last year to a Planned Parenthood affiliate and a Boulder abortion provider.
http://dev.alliancedefensefund.org/news/pressrelease.aspx?cid=5215 - 4k - 2/26/2010
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ADF-allied attorney available to media at hearing over Ariz. laws protecting women
Deborah Sheasby, legal counsel with the Center for Arizona Policy and an Alliance Defense Fund allied attorney, will be available for media interviews following a hearing Friday in a lawsuit filed by Planned Parenthood that seeks to strike down two Arizona laws protecting the health and safety of women. The court granted ADF and CAP permission to file a friend-of-the-court brief in the case, but they are appealing the court’s decision to deny doctors, several organizations, and the bill’s sponsors the ability to intervene in the lawsuit to defend the laws. Friday’s hearing concerns the state’s motion to dismiss a portion of the lawsuit as well as a motion to intervene filed by the Arizona speaker of the House, who also wishes to defend the laws.
http://dev.alliancedefensefund.org/news/pressrelease.aspx?cid=5192 - 5k - 2/5/2010
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Middle Tenn. St. Univ. drops discriminatory fees for student pro-life group after ADF letter
After receiving a letter from Alliance Defense Fund attorneys, Middle Tennessee State University has agreed to retract its discriminatory requirement that a pro-life student group pay a security fee for a campus display. ADF attorneys representing the student group, Pro-Life Collegians, argued that the fee was unconstitutional, noting that other student groups are not required to pay for campus security during their events.
http://dev.alliancedefensefund.org/news/pressrelease.aspx?cid=5187 - 4k - 1/27/2010
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ADF files brief asking court to affirm personhood of preborn children
Attorneys with the Alliance Defense Fund filed a friend-of-the-court brief Friday with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit asking the court to reject Planned Parenthood’s attempt to block portions of South Dakota’s informed consent law.
http://dev.alliancedefensefund.org/news/pressrelease.aspx?cid=5181 - 4k - 1/25/2010
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ADF attorneys help secure free speech for NC pro-life student
Officials at Randelman High School have responded positively to a letter sent by attorneys with the Alliance Defense Fund on behalf of a student whose pro-life message had been censored. The student, Brianna Cardwell, was participating in the Pro-Life Day of Silent Solidarity sponsored by Stand True Ministries.
http://dev.alliancedefensefund.org/news/pressrelease.aspx?cid=5158 - 3k - 12/22/2009
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