SEATTLE – On behalf of a teenage wrestler and her mother, Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys filed an emergency motion Thursday in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit asking it to require Washington state officials to respect parental rights and protect women’s sports.

ADF Vice President of Appellate Advocacy John Bursch:  “States have the strongest possible interest in protecting the most fundamental of our human rights—the right to life. Nothing in the federal Constitution grants a right to take innocent, unborn life. We’re pleased the court is respecting Idahoans’ desire to protect life, which Attorney General Labrador has fought so courageously to defend...”

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.