RICHMOND, Va. – Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys representing three Virginia students who were excluded from generally available college grants because they chose certain ineligible religious programs filed their opening brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit Tuesday.

ADF Legal Counsel Sara Beth Nolan:  “Women and girls shouldn’t be forced to sacrifice their privacy and safety in the name of promoting gender ideology. Allowing men to invade women’s most intimate spaces—including changing rooms and restrooms—compromises their dignity. Forcing a woman to sleep overnight with a male against her will is not acceptable….”

HONOLULU – After a federal district court ruled in January that a Hawaii state law censoring online political speech is unconstitutional, Hawaii officials chose not to appeal the decision, but instead to end their defense of the law and pay attorneys’ fees in The Babylon Bee v. Lopez.