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.

ADF CEO, President, and Chief Counsel Kristen Waggoner:  “We’ve all witnessed the recent trend of European nations intimidating, prosecuting, and jailing citizens who challenge the viewpoint of the ruling class. The DSA goes even further by not just punishing this speech, but attempting to prevent it altogether….”

PASADENA, Calif. – Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys representing a nonprofit pro-life pregnancy center and a nonprofit network of affiliated centers will be available for media interviews Thursday following a hearing at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit in National Institute of Family and Life Advocates v. Bonta. ADF attorneys are seeking to protect the centers’ right to inform women about how supplemental progesterone can reverse the effects of abortion drugs.