HEADLINES
AL governor signs bill protecting student ‘released time’ for religious instruction
ADF Senior Counsel Greg Chafuen: “Parents have the right and responsibility to guide the upbringing and education of their children. The government shouldn’t stop families from raising their children in their family’s faith. S.B. 248 respects parents’ educational decisions, allowing public school children to be briefly excused from school to receive free, off-campus religious instruction taught by private charitable organizations….”
Pregnancy centers seek First Amendment protections from abortion referrals
CHICAGO – Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys representing the National Institute of Family and Life Advocates and three Illinois pregnancy centers will participate in a press conference Tuesday following oral arguments in the 10-year-old case of NIFLA v. Treto at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit.
New FDIC, OCC rule prohibits use of ‘reputation risk’ to unfairly discriminate
ADF Senior VP of Corporate Engagement Jeremy Tedesco:: “The FDIC and OCC’s new rule prohibiting the use of ‘reputation risk’ helps close the book on a shameful period where regulators abused their power to threaten law-abiding Americans through their financial institutions….”
U.S. SUPREME COURT
E.D. v. Noblesville School DistrictLittle v. HecoxState of West Virginia v. B.P.J.Youth 71Five Ministries v. WilliamsFirst Choice Women’s Resource Centers v. PlatkinFoote v. Ludlow School CommitteeChiles v. Salazar
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