Cases

American Freedom Law Center Co-Founder and Senior Counsel Robert J. Muise has been actively involved for many years with the defense of the Mount Soledad Veterans’ Memorial and its large memorial cross.  In fact, but for the efforts of Muise and California civil rights attorney Charles S. LiMandri, the cross…

On February 13, 2012, the American Freedom Law Center (AFLC) filed a “friend of the court” brief in the U.S. Supreme Court in defense of Arizona’s new immigration law.  To address the serious illegal immigration crisis, Arizona enacted the Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act (S.B. 1070) in…

On December 5, 2011, AFLC Co-Founder and Senior Counsel Robert Muise filed a federal lawsuit against the U.S. Department of State for failing to provide records in its possession concerning an insurgent attack against U.S. Marines in Haditha, Iraq on November 19, 2005.  [Read a copy of the complaint here].  …

On May 5, 2010, three plaintiff students and two other students wore to school various items of clothing (t-shirts, shorts, shoes) which had depictions of the American flag or American-flag like motifs (i.e., stars and stripes).  That day, some students at the school were celebrating the Mexican holiday known as…

Captain Paul Fields has served honorably on the City of Tulsa, Oklahoma police department for more than 17 years.  Throughout his entire career, Captain Fields has been a model for other police officers and an exemplary employee of the police department.  Captain Fields is a Christian.  He is not a Muslim,…

In January 2002, Crystal Dixon began working as the administrative director of employee relations at the Medical College of Ohio (“MCO”), which later became part of the University of Toledo.  She was eventually promoted to acting Administrator for Human Resources.  Dixon was recruited by William Logie, a defendant in this…

On February 15, 2012, the American Freedom Law Center (AFLC), along with co-counsel and civil rights attorney Charles S. LiMandri, filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, challenging the constitutionality of the Obama administration’s “contraception” mandate.  The lawsuit was filed on behalf…

Pursuant to a longstanding school district policy of permitting teachers to express personal, non-curricular messages through the display of banners, posters, flags, and other items and for more than 25 of those years, Bradley Johnson, a high school math teacher, displayed in his classroom, without complaint, two such banners.  The…

AFLC Co-Founders and Senior Counsel David Yerushalmi and Robert Muise, on behalf of the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI), Pamela Geller, and Robert Spencer, filed a federal civil rights lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York against the New York Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA)…

As soon as President Obama signed the new healthcare reform act (Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act) into law on March 23, 2010, AFLC Co-Founders and Senior Counsel David Yerushalmi and Robert Muise electronically filed the first federal lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the Act.  The case was filed in federal…