Today, the court granted the Center’s client, St. Herman’s Table, a temporary restraining order (TRO) in its lawsuit against the City of Phoenix and forbade the city from enforcing the ordinance against St. Herman’s Table and its volunteers through June 24. This means St. Herman’s volunteers can continue to feed the homeless in Cave Creek […]
The Center filed a lawsuit against the City of Phoenix on behalf of its client, St. Herman’s Table, regarding the city’s recent passage of an ordinance that would criminalize feeding the homeless in a local park. At the same time, the Center requested both a preliminary injunction and an emergency temporary restraining order (TRO). The […]
CLS submitted an amicus brief to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals backing a legal challenge brought by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and allied Catholic organizations (together “USCCB”). The lawsuit targets the EEOC’s attempt to enforce an abortion provision within the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act, which was enacted to add workplace protections for pregnant […]
The Supreme Court denied a petition for writ of certiorari filed by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), thereby declining to intervene in USCCB’s efforts to dismiss a lawsuit alleging it misled donors about the purposes of the Catholic Church’s annual Peter’s Pence collection. The Court’s denial of the petition will leave in place […]
The Center celebrates the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in First Choice Women’s Resource Centers, Inc. v. Davenport, a case that is very important to two of the Center’s clients—two crisis pregnancy centers in New Jersey that have been served with similarly abusive subpoenas from the same attorney general in this case. The Court unanimously ruled […]
Christian Legal Society, alongside other ministries with students chapters in public schools around the country, sent a letter to the Secretary of Education Linda McMahon requesting some important updates to the “Guidance on Constitutionally Protected Prayer and Religious Expression in Public Elementary and Secondary Schools.” The Guidance has been a longstanding description of the rights […]
After holding a hearing on a request to move the date of the mayoral runoff election in Surfside, Florida—less than 20 hours before the election—a court entered an order granting in part/denying in part Plaintiffs’ request pertaining to the election. The court ruled the election would proceed as originally scheduled on April 7, right in the middle […]
Chabad of Surfside, United Orthodox Synagogues of Surfside, multiple rabbis, and individual voters filed an emergency lawsuit to postpone a mayoral election in Surfside, Florida, by one week until after Passover. Plaintiffs are seeking a temporary injunction blocking the April 7 runoff and asking that it be rescheduled to April 14—or another date that does […]
Christian Legal Society sent a letter to President Trump and Acting Attorney General Blanche calling on them to stand with pro-life Republican attorneys general, not the abortion industry. Recently, the U.S. Department of Justice moved to dismiss lawsuits brought by pro-life states against the Food and Drug Administration, siding with the abortion industry on mail-order […]
In a near-unanimous 8-1 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court sided with a Christian counselor who contended that a Colorado law violated her free speech by restricting her from talking to minors who sought help in overcoming same-sex attraction or gender confusion. In Chiles v. Salazar, the Court ruled Colorado’s ban on LGBTQ+ conversion therapy for […]
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