Advocates International Press Center
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The United States Supreme Court announced a narrow ruling today holding that public universities may override a religious student group’s right to determine its leadership only if it denies that right to all student groups in the name of “diversity.” The Court remanded to the courts below the remaining factual questions of whether the government‘s so-called ‘all-comers policy’ lately imposed by the University of California’s Hastings College of Law to exclude recognition of a Christian law student organization at the school is unconstitutional, as applied. The Court held that whether excluding the Christian Legal Society (CLS) based upon its Statement of Christian Faith constitutes a discriminatory and unconstitutional deprivation of law students rights of free expression, religious free exercise and association now turns on whether the school’s ‘all comers’ policy is, in fact, being equally applied to all student groups and not being used as a subterfuge to either discriminate against a particular group of law students based upon their viewpoint, or “infiltrate the group or challenge its leadership in order to stifle its views.” (Kennedy, J. concurring).
WASHINGTON, DC (June 28,...
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WASHINGTON, DC (June 25, 2010). Today the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia issued its decision finding that doctors doing adult stem cell research have ‘competitive standing’ to sue. Therefore, the court reinstated the doctors’ federal lawsuit, filed last summer that seeks to preliminarily enjoin and ultimately overturn the controversial guidelines for public funding of embryonic stem cell research that the National Institutes of Health issued on July 7, 2009. The implementation of these guidelines marks the first time that taxpayer dollars will be used to fund research that will result in the destruction of human embryos. Since 1994, Congress has expressly banned NIH from funding research in which human embryos “are destroyed, discarded, or knowingly subjected to risk of injury or death.”
According to Thomas G. Hungar, one of the lawyers for the plaintiffs, “the...
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The United States Supreme Court hears oral arguments tomorrow in a case to decide whether a government ‘non-discrimination policy’ being imposed by the University of California’s Hastings College of Law to exclude recognition of a Christian law student organization at the school, based upon its Statement of Christian Faith, constitutes a discriminatory and unconstitutional deprivation of law students rights of free expression, religious free exercise and association.
WASHINGTON, DC (April 18, 2010) — Advocates International, the worldwide public interest advocacy organization of more than 30,000 Christian lawyers, jurists, law professors and law students committed to doing justice with compassion, called for prayer and solidarity in support of the freedoms of expression, religion and association being argued tomorrow morning before the United States Supreme Court by Stanford University Constitutional law Professor Michael McConnell in Christian Legal Society v. Martinez. Prayers are also requested for the questions and deliberations of the justices that they might adjudicate this vital constitutional questions in a just manner consistent with the First Amendment to the United States...
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CLASFON, the Christian Lawyers Fellowship of Nigeria, joins with Advocates International to form an on-going project -The Justice for Jos Project – to provide humanitarian and legal assistance to the survivors of the unprovoked attacks and monitoring of ...
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HARTFORD, CT. —Representing Concerned Women for America, America’s largest women’s advocacy group and four other groups of pro-life medical professionals, attorneys with Advocates International filed a joint motion to lift stay and at last permit their ...
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Supreme Court poised to decide whether a state non-discrimination policy constitutes a discriminatory and unconstitutional deprivation of law students rights of free expression, religion and association
WASHINGTON, DC — Today, in support of Christian Legal Society’s opening brief in the case, ...