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On March 24, 2016, AFLC filed a federal lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, challenging the Obama administration’s HHS mandate and its so-called “accommodation” that the government is now enforcing against closely-held, for profit companies following the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Hobby Lobby.…

On March 23rd, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in seven consolidated cases challenging the HHS contraception/abortion mandate of the Affordable Care Act (i.e., Obamacare) on behalf of religious organizations. One of those cases is AFLC’s challenge brought on behalf of Priests for Life. The question presented to the Court is whether…

On February 19, 2016, the American Freedom Law Center (AFLC), a national public interest law firm, filed its opening brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in New York on behalf of Joelle Silver, a public school teacher and devout Christian who was forced by Cheektowaga…

Tomorrow morning (February 12, 2016), David Yerushalmi, Senior Counsel at the American Freedom Law Center (AFLC), will present oral argument before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, which is located in Washington, D.C., on behalf of several former clients of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), including…

On February 1, the American Freedom Law Center (AFLC) filed an amicus curiae (“friend of the court”) brief in the U.S. Supreme Court in support of Texas’ right to adopt medical regulations that have the purpose and effect of protecting women from the harmful effects of abortion.  The case, Whole Woman’s…

Tomorrow morning (January 15, 2016), David Yerushalmi, Senior Counsel at the American Freedom Law Center, will present oral argument before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, which is located in New York City, on behalf of Pamela Geller, Robert Spencer, and their non-profit organization, American Freedom Defense…

Today, a Florida federal court order dismissing a lawsuit filed by CAIR Florida against Florida Gun Supply became final and is no longer appealable because CAIR failed to file its notice of appeal by Monday, December 28—30 days after the court issued its order. In the lawsuit, CAIR alleged that…

As a kind of Christmas present to liberty and the U.S. Constitution, the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals, sitting en banc (the entire court), today reversed more than 30-years of jurisprudence by holding that trademark registration under the Lanham Act deserves First Amendment protection.  The import of this holding is…

On December 17, 2015, Federal Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, sitting in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, denied the Council on American-Islamic Relation’s (CAIR) motion to reopen discovery in what has become known as the Muslim Mafia Trial. CAIR, which bills itself as “America’s largest Muslim civil liberties…

Today (November 24, 2015), a Florida federal judge granted a motion to dismiss filed by the American Freedom Law Center (AFLC), dismissing a lawsuit filed by CAIR Florida against AFLC’s client, Florida Gun Supply. In the lawsuit, CAIR alleged that Florida Gun Supply’s refusal to equip Islamic terrorists is religious…