Commission says attorney cannot talk about his client’s beliefs Anchorage, AK—Attorneys with First Liberty Institute today filed a motion to dismiss before the Anchorage Equal Rights Commission (“AERC”) on behalf of the law firm Brena, Bell & Clarkson, P.C. in response to charges the AERC brought against it for defending […]
An Alaska law firm has been accused of violating a city’s non-discrimination ordinance after they provided legal representation to a Christian women’s shelter accused of violating the same ordinance. The Anchorage Equal Rights Commission filed a formal complaint against Brena, Bell & Clarkson, charging the law firm with committing “unlawful […]
Decisions by Village Board to deny use of property for a local congregation violates Constitution, state and federal laws Walthill, NE—First Liberty Institute and Attorney Sam Diehl of the Gray Plant Mooty law firm today filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska in response […]
Mary Anne Sause, a Kansas woman who claims police violated her First Amendment right to the free exercise of religion when they commanded her to stop praying, will have another day in court after the Supreme Court of the United States ordered a lower court Thursday to reconsider her lawsuit. […]
A Kansas woman who says her First Amendment rights were violated when police officers stopped her from praying in her home will get another chance in court, the Supreme Court said Thursday. In an unsigned opinion, the court reversed a ruling from the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which […]
The Oregon Supreme Court has refused to hear the case of a Christian husband and wife who were penalized for declining to make a wedding cake for a lesbian couple. Aaron and Melissa Klein, owners of Sweetcakes by Melissa, had asked the state’s high court to overturn a lower court’s […]
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