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On Tuesday, June 16, 2015, a hearing will be held in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on whether the recent change to the New York City Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) advertising regulations moots the court’s order directing the MTA to run a “Hamas Killing…

  On Monday, June 15, 2015, the American Freedom Law Center (AFLC) will present oral argument before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in its appeal of a lower federal court ruling that denied AFLC’s motion for a preliminary injunction.  AFLC’s motion requested that the court order the…

On June 1, a Michigan federal judge once again held that the Muslim Brotherhood-Hamas front group, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), must pay legal fees and costs after the American Freedom Law Center (AFLC) successfully “quashed” harassing and burdensome subpoenas issued by CAIR to Ms. Zaba Davis, a private…

On May 20th, a sharply divided U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit denied Priests for Life’s petition to rehear en banc (full court) its legal challenge to the HHS mandate. Three circuit judges dissented from this decision. The American Freedom Law Center (AFLC) is representing Priests for Life…

Today, the American Freedom Law Center filed a civil rights lawsuit against The Irvine Company, the owner of the Irvine Spectrum Center and Fashion Island, two large shopping centers located in Orange County, alleging that the Company violated California’s liberty of speech provision by banning anti-abortion signs that it claims…

On April 21, a federal court ruled that New York City’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) violated the First Amendment by refusing to run the “Hamas Killing Jews” advertisement displayed below and must therefore display the advertisement on MTA buses. The ad’s sponsors, Pamela Geller, Robert Spencer, and the American Freedom…

This term, the United States Supreme Court will address the issue of whether the Fourteenth Amendment requires a state to license a marriage between two people of the same sex.  In other words, the Court will decide whether the Constitution requires so-called “same-sex marriage.” Given the extreme importance of this…

Today, a hearing will be held in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on the American Freedom Law Center’s (AFLC) motion for a preliminary junction, which asks the court to enter an order requiring New York City’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) to run a “Hamas…

Late yesterday, a federal judge sitting in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania granted the American Freedom Law Center’s (AFLC) motion for a preliminary injunction, holding that the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority’s (SEPTA) refusal to run a “Stop the Islamic Jew-Hatred” advertisement on its advertising…

Judge Paul Friedman, the federal judge presiding over a five-year old lawsuit alleging that the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) defrauded dozens of Muslim and non-Muslim clients, issued a shocking ruling when he summarily dismissed the lawsuit, which was brought in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.…