NEW YORK – Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel and Vice President of Appellate Advocacy John Bursch will be available for media interviews Wednesday following oral arguments at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit in New Yorkers for Religious Liberty v. City of New York. The case involves a New York City mandate that forced city workers to be injected with the COVID-19 vaccine against their sincere religious beliefs if they wanted to keep their jobs and offered religious accommodations only on a discretionary—and discriminatory—basis. 

MILWAUKEE – Attorneys with Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty and Alliance Defending Freedom representing two sets of Wisconsin parents filed a motion Friday asking a state court to rule in favor of their parental rights. The parents filed a lawsuit in November 2021 against the Kettle Moraine School District to challenge its policy that encourages minor students to change their name and gender pronouns at school without parental consent. 

PHOENIX – In an effort to prevent children from being aborted simply for having a disability, attorneys from Alliance Defending Freedom are representing the president of the Arizona State Senate and the speaker of the Arizona House of Representatives on a motion filed Friday that asks a federal district court to allow the lawmakers to intervene in defense of a state law that prevents such an act from occurring.