Life Legal Defense Foundation in the Courtroom
Dec. 2, 2009:
The Unfortunate Legacy of Hill v. Colorado
On December 1, LLDF filed an amicus brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to take up the case of a Massachusetts law severely restricting pro-life speech activity.
McCullen v. Coakley, No. 09-592, challenges the constitutionality of a 2007 law making it a crime to “enter or remain” on public sidewalks within 35 feet of abortion clinics. The law contains exceptions for clinic patients, law enforcement, persons passing through the zone, and clinic employees “acting in the scope of their employment.” Last July, the First Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the law is constitutional, and the pro-life plaintiffs filed a petition in the Supreme Court.
[read LLDF Press Release]
Press Release (May 11, 2009)
JURY DECLARES SURVIVORS’ INNOCENT—
VIDEO REVEALS POLICE BRUTALITY AND COVER UP
RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA: The Life Legal Defense Foundation is pleased to announce that justice prevailed late Friday afternoon, May 8th, with a NOT GUILTY verdict in the case of PEOPLE v. CONRAD AND CONRAD (MWV707249). Survivors’ Campus Life Tour team members, Jason and James Conrad, were being tried as a result of arrests that took place during a CLT outreach at Chaffey College in Rancho Cucamonga [read article]
Dec. 2009: LLDF Intervenes to Protect Women and Their Children in Arizona
Last week [getdate?] a federal court ruled that two pro-life organizations could intervene in a lawsuit to defend pro-life legislation passed this year by Arizona’s legislature. The Crisis Pregnancy Centers of Greater Phoenix and the Arizona Catholic Conference are defending new pro-life laws that protect women considering abortion and medical providers who do not wish to participate in or refer for abortions. A lawsuit challenging these protective measures has been filed in federal court by Tucson Women’s Center, an abortion provider based in Arizona.
The protective measures being challenged include the requirement that abortion practitioners must provide a woman considering abortion specific information about her pregnancy in an in-person consultation at least 24 hours before performing the abortion.
Life Legal Defense Foundation’s Legal Director, Katie Short, and LLDF board member, Nikolas Nikas of Bioethics Defense Fund, joined with Arizona-based Alliance Defense Fund and the Center for Arizona Policy in the motion to intervene.
A parallel state court action has been brought by Planned Parenthood Arizona seeking to permanently enjoin enforcement of the new pro-life laws. The state court allowed a friend of the court brief to be filed by LLDF attorneys and others. The Court also accepted the declarations of medical experts attesting that the challenged provisions embody sound medical practice.
Appeal Filed for Walter Hoye (11/17/2009)
This week in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal, attorneys Mike Millen and Katie Short, Legal Director for the Life Legal Defense Foundation, filed their opening brief in an appeal in the case of Walter B. Hoye v. City of Oakland. The appeal seeks to reverse the August 4, 2009 decision of federal district judge Charles Breyer denying Rev. Hoye’s Motion for Summary Judgment and granting Oakland’s Cross-Motion.
[read article]
COURT DENIES DA’S MOTION FOR LIFETIME BAN ON WALTER HOYE
On August 24, Judge Stuart Hing denied the Alameda County District Attorney's motion for an injunction against Rev. Walter Hoye. The injunction sought by the District Attorney would have forever banned Rev. Hoye from exercising free speech rights within 100 yards of the Family Planning Specialists abortion clinic in Oakland.
[read article]
Court Turns Down Pastor Hoye’s Challenge to “Mother May I” Ordinance
On August 4, federal district court judge Charles Breyer ruled Oakland’s “Mother May I” ordinance constitutional, setting the stage for a showdown in the 9th Circuit. In a 25-page memorandum opinion, Breyer held that the ordinance, which applies only outside abortion facilities, was not content- or viewpoint-based on its face. The court also ruled that the ordinance was narrowly tailored, even though it prohibits merely extending one’s hand with a leaflet to a woman seeking to enter an abortion clinic.
[read article]
D.A. SEEKS LIFETIME BAN FOR WALTER HOYE
At a hearing Monday [7/27/09] before Alameda County Superior Court Judge Stuart Hing, deputy district attorney Masanao Morimoto revealed that the District Attorney is seeking to ban Walter Hoye from ever returning to the Family Planning Specialists clinic in Oakland California.
[read article]
More about this case in Lifeline, Spring 2009
See the latest
coverage of Pastor Walter Hoye’s case in the Los Angeles Times, which includes
video of the incident at issue in his case.
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