ADF Vice President of Appellate Advocacy John Bursch:  “Women and girls deserve to compete on a level playing field. But activists continue their quest to erase differences between men and women by forcing schools to allow men to compete in women’s sports. This contradicts biological reality and common sense. That’s why we are pleased the district court rejected the attempt to end this case before it is argued before the U.S. Supreme Court….”

LAFAYETTE, La. – The state of Louisiana, together with attorneys from Alliance Defending Freedom, filed a federal lawsuit against the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for enabling pro-abortion activists and doctors to mail streams of high-risk abortion drugs into states that protect the lives of unborn babies.

TACOMA, Wash. – Four months after Orthodox Churches and a priest sued, Washington state officials agreed to a court order permanently preventing enforcement of a provision of law that targeted priests by criminalizing their religious obligation to keep confessions confidential. Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys, with co-counsel Eric Kniffin and George Ahrend, filed the lawsuit Orthodox Church in America v. Ferguson in June to challenge Washington’s discriminatory law.