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In Letter, DOJ’s Civil Rights Division Chief Agrees All Children Should Be Protected from Bullying Regardless of Religion The Justice Department has responded to the Freedom of Conscience Defense Fund’s recommendation that it rescind its Obama-era, religion-based anti-bullying and harassment guidelines. In September 2018, FCDF executive director Daniel Piedra sent a report and recommendation to…
Attorneys for the Freedom of Conscience Defense Fund and St. Thomas More Society filed a petition for review today in the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of pro-life journalist David Daleiden, asking the Court to overturn a Ninth Circuit ruling that is “obliterating” Daleiden’s First Amendment defenses against Planned Parenthood. Planned Parenthood is suing Daleiden…
School Officials are arguing President Trump’s presidential campaign justified religiously preferential program This afternoon, attorneys for the Freedom of Conscience Defense Fund responded to the San Diego Unified School District Board of Education’s defense of its “Anti-Islamophobia Initiative.” Since five families and two local organizations sued last year, the school board has refused to defend…
Freedom of Conscience Defense Fund attorneys have filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the U.S. Supreme Court in defense of Phyllis Young, who is being punished by the Hawaii state government for declining to allow a same-sex couple to stay the night at her home. FCDF filed the amicus brief in a team effort with the Ethics…
Today, FCDF attorneys filed an informal response to the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing’s petition for a “writ of mandate,” which is asking the state court of appeals to block Kern County Superior Court Judge David Lampe’s recent order enforcing its judgment in favor of Christian baker Cathy Miller. A writ of mandamus…
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