But the case is not over as the decision was not a ruling on the merits. Late last night, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts sided with the four liberal justices and rejected South Bay Pentecostal Church’s emergency appeal to block Governor Newsom’s COVID-19 church restrictions. Charles LiMandri, the Freedom of Conscience Defense Fund’s Chief Litigation Counsel,…
This morning, Freedom of Conscience Defense Fund attorneys and co-counsel filed an emergency motion with the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of South Bay United Pentecostal Church and its pastor, Bishop Arthur Hodges III, asking for an injunction to block California Governor Gavin Newsom from enforcing his ban on church services. The attorneys filed the motion hours after the Ninth Circuit denied South Bay Church’s request for an emergency injunction late…
Case: Skyline Wesleyan Church v. California Dep’t of Managed Health Care The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on May 13 that a federal district court erred when it dismissed Skyline Wesleyan Church’s religious freedom challenge to the State of California’s abortion mandate. FCDF is representing Skyline Church with Alliance Defending Freedom. The appeals court…
State bureaucrats refuse to issue a license to open a home for sex-trafficked girls because of the charity’s Catholic beliefs about sexual orientation and abortion. Children of the Immaculate Heart, a Catholic charity that cares for victims of human trafficking, filed an emergency motion for a temporary restraining order in state court today. The charity…
Children of the Immaculate Heart (CIH), a religious charity that helps women escape from sex trafficking, sued today seeking to end a State of California mandate that is leaving a rescue home for commercially sexually exploited teen girls empty while San Diego County experiences a child sex-trafficking crisis. In Children of the Immaculate Heart v….
The pro-life trial of this generation begins on September 30th. Just imagine. . . . Every morning David Daleiden wakes up knowing that Planned Parenthood and the billion-dollar abortion industry is stopping at nothing to destroy him utterly. Every morning he wakes up having had death threats against him, being viciously attacked on national news…
The Freedom of Conscience Defense Fund today sent a public records request to West New York School District, demanding the production of documents that could show whether the District is unlawfully promoting religion. Last month, Memorial High School hung a large banner beseeching “Allah” to “shower” students with “love and wisdom.” FCDF is also seeking…
School Officials Had Unwittingly Partaken with Local Mosque’s “Dawah Educational Awareness in the Public Schools” to Convert Schoolchildren to “Accept Islam with Allah’s guidance.” Two days after FCDF sent a “cease and desist letter” to the West New York School District, attorneys for the school district’s Board of Education notified FCDF on Friday that “the…
FCDF Demands that Superintendent Take Down Unconstitutional Ramadan Posters The Freedom of Conscience Defense Fund (FCDF) sent a “cease and desist” letter moments ago to West New York School District’s superintendent, demanding that two district-sponsored Ramadan posters in Memorial High School be taken down. One poster offers “Warm greetings from Memorial High school” and wishes…
The Northshore School District has withdrawn its Ramadan policy in response to a “cease and desist” letter filed by the Freedom of Conscience Defense Fund (FCDF). Two weeks ago, several parents and an anonymous teacher contacted FCDF about the district’s special protections for Muslim students during Ramadan, Islam’s holy month. FCDF’s executive director Daniel Piedra…
