Overview

The Center for Law & Religious Freedom advances the Center's mission by representing clients in test case litigation in the following areas of advocacy:

1. Protecting religious student organizations against the misuse of nondiscrimination rules to interfere with their membership and leadership decisions;
2. Protecting faith-based social services from government discrimination against them and from the misuse of nondiscrimination rules to interfere with their personnel decisions;
3. Protecting healthcare professionals against pressure to participate in healthcare practices that they find personally objectionable, i.e. violating their right of conscience, such as abortion;
4. Protecting religious schools from government discrimination against them and from the misuse of nondiscrimination rules to interfere with their personnel decisions.

Recent Litigation

Christian Legal Society v. Martinez (formally Newton) (University of California, Hastings College of the Law)

Cordova v. Laliberte (Boise State University)

Christian Legal Society v. Eck (University of Montana School of Law)

Connecticut v. United States (consolidated with Planned Parenthood v. Leavitt and NFPRHA v. Leavitt)

Doe v. California Lutheran High School

Pedreira v. Kentucky Baptist Homes for Children (Sunrise Christian Services)

Pennybacker v. Beshear (University of the Cumberlands)