Court Cases

We represented Yvonne Allen, a devout Christian woman who covers her hair with a headscarf as part of her religious practice and who was forced to remove her head covering to renew her driver's license.

We represented Keith Golden, a retired U. S. Army Staff Sergeant who was exercising his First Amendment right to film police officers in public.

We represented the four individual defendants, the officers of an activist group in Uniontown, who were sued for speaking out in opposition to racial and environmental injustice.

On June 30, 2014, Pastor Martin was served with a notice by the District Attorney’s office that an action would be brought against him if he did not evict the sexual offenders. We claim that the challenged provision violates Pastor Martin’s right to exercise his religion and use of land.

While religious freedom gives us all the right to make personal decisions about how to practice religion, it doesn't give institutions or individuals the right to impose their beliefs on others or to discriminate. Thus, together with National, we filed an amicus brief arguing that point.

These two cases involve a blogger’s relentless drumbeat of publishing allegations regarding Petitioners on a website, allegations which the Petitioners claim are false, defamatory and libelous.