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Settlement affirms VA religious groups free to operate according to beliefs
ALEXANDRIA, Va. – In settlement of a lawsuit that Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys filed on behalf of two Virginia churches, three Christian schools, and a pregnancy center network, Virginia officials have acknowledged that commonwealth law protects the religious organizations’ ability to operate consistent with their faith.
Read more >>U.S. Supreme Court protects free speech online
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Friday that public officials can be held accountable for free-speech violations on social media while simultaneously protecting those officials’ First Amendment rights when using social media for private purposes. The court issued decisions in Lindke v. Freed and O’Connor-Ratcliff v. Garnier, both of which dealt with government censorship on social media. Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys with co-counsel Brown Fox PLLC filed a friend-of-the-court brief in Garnier in August on behalf of the Manhattan Institute, a nonprofit public-policy research foundation with the mission to develop and disseminate new ideas that foster economic choice and individual responsibility.
Read more >>ADF to FDA: Women deserve better
ADF Senior Counsel Erin Hawley: “Women should have the ongoing care of a doctor when taking high-risk drugs. The FDA betrayed women and girls when it removed the necessary in-person doctor visits that protected women’s health and well-being. The FDA’s own label for abortion drugs says that roughly one in 25 women who take them will end up in the emergency room. Yet the government continues to defend its reckless actions that jeopardize women’s health and safety....”
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