WASHINGTON – Attorneys with Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe and Alliance Defending Freedom filed their opening merits brief at the U.S. Supreme Court Monday on behalf of a devout Orthodox Jew suing the city of University Heights, Ohio after officials required him to obtain a permit to pray in his home with a small group of friends. The Supreme Court agreed to hear Daniel Grand’s case after lower federal courts threw out his lawsuit and said he needed to finish the permitting process before vindicating his constitutional rights.

SEATTLE – After an Idaho district court became the first federal court in the nation to “find” a new federal constitutional right to abortion post-Dobbs, Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador, serving alongside Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys, asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit Wednesday to allow the state to protect the lives of unborn children and women.

WASHINGTON – Alliance Defending Freedom, in collaboration with its sister organization ADF Action, announced Tuesday engagement on more than 250 state and federal bills advancing core God-given freedoms during the 2026 legislative session, including dozens that became law.