http://www.alliancealert.org news from the frontlines of the culture war Thu, 24 May 2012 23:12:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/02/08/jeff-shafer-vanderbilt-university-imposing-a-policy-to-which-it-would-not-submit/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/02/08/jeff-shafer-vanderbilt-university-imposing-a-policy-to-which-it-would-not-submit/#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:57:42 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=124968 Townhall: Granting leadership positions to those who disagree with an organization’s outlook is a most effective means to undermine it. That’s precisely why the university would never submit itself to the policy it is imposing on its religious student community—revealing that the university is fully aware of the destructive effect of that policy. The student body at Vanderbilt deserves better treatment than that. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/02/08/jeff-shafer-vanderbilt-university-imposing-a-policy-to-which-it-would-not-submit/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/11/17/choose-life-custom-license-plates-allowed-in-ny/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/11/17/choose-life-custom-license-plates-allowed-in-ny/#comments Thu, 17 Nov 2011 11:31:51 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=118847 Christian Post: Attorney Jeffrey Shafer from The Alliance Defense Fund, who is representing the pro-life organization, said that First Amendment rights were at stake here, and he was confident that the ruling would stand and allow even more states to adopt the plates. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/11/17/choose-life-custom-license-plates-allowed-in-ny/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/11/15/ny-drivers-can-now-%e2%80%9cchoose-life%e2%80%9d-over-death/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/11/15/ny-drivers-can-now-%e2%80%9cchoose-life%e2%80%9d-over-death/#comments Tue, 15 Nov 2011 10:57:11 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=118572 Greeley Gazette: ADF Senior Counsel, Jeff Shafer, says the court’s ruling is a victory for free speech. “Pro-adoption organizations should be allowed to express their message as part of a program where others are freely allowed to express theirs,” Shafer continued “The state's not authorized to censor The Children First Foundation for its life-affirming viewpoint, but it's gotten away with doing so for ten years now since the application was first submitted.” ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/11/15/ny-drivers-can-now-%e2%80%9cchoose-life%e2%80%9d-over-death/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/11/14/court-orders-new-york-to-allow-%e2%80%98choose-life%e2%80%99-license-plates-lifesitenews-com/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/11/14/court-orders-new-york-to-allow-%e2%80%98choose-life%e2%80%99-license-plates-lifesitenews-com/#comments Mon, 14 Nov 2011 12:23:31 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=118455 LifeSiteNews.com: “Pro-adoption organizations have the right to a specialty license plate on the same terms as any other organization, and the court’s decision affirms that,” said ADF Senior Legal Counsel Jeff Shafer. “The state is not authorized to censor The Children First Foundation for its life-affirming viewpoint, but it has gotten away with doing so for 10 years now since the application was first submitted.” ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/11/14/court-orders-new-york-to-allow-%e2%80%98choose-life%e2%80%99-license-plates-lifesitenews-com/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/11/14/court-ny-can-choose-pro-life-tags-onenewsnow-com/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/11/14/court-ny-can-choose-pro-life-tags-onenewsnow-com/#comments Mon, 14 Nov 2011 12:01:01 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=118441 OneNewsNow.com: "Pro-adoption organizations have the right to a specialty license plate on the same terms as any other organization, and the court's decision affirms that," Shafer shares. "The state's not authorized to censor The Children First Foundation for its life-affirming viewpoint, but it's gotten away with doing so for ten years now since the application was first submitted." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/11/14/court-ny-can-choose-pro-life-tags-onenewsnow-com/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/11/14/federal-judge-gives-go-ahead-to-new-york-%e2%80%9cchoose-life%e2%80%9d-license-plate-nrl-news-today/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/11/14/federal-judge-gives-go-ahead-to-new-york-%e2%80%9cchoose-life%e2%80%9d-license-plate-nrl-news-today/#comments Mon, 14 Nov 2011 11:48:52 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=118434 NRL News Today: The Alliance Defense Fund first took the case in 2004 and its lawsuit prompted then-Governor George Pataki to impose a moratorium on all requests for custom license plates. Shafer says about the state has denied about another 100 requests because of the moratorium. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/11/14/federal-judge-gives-go-ahead-to-new-york-%e2%80%9cchoose-life%e2%80%9d-license-plate-nrl-news-today/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/11/14/judge-says-new-yorks-refusal-to-issue-choose-life-license-plates-violates-first-amendment/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/11/14/judge-says-new-yorks-refusal-to-issue-choose-life-license-plates-violates-first-amendment/#comments Mon, 14 Nov 2011 11:46:40 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=118432 ABA Journal: The Alliance Defense Fund represented the group, according to a press release. ADF lawyer Jeffrey Shafer told AP that 28 other states offer Choose Life plates and the Illinois case was “kind of an odd turn, an anomalous result.” ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/11/14/judge-says-new-yorks-refusal-to-issue-choose-life-license-plates-violates-first-amendment/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/11/10/federal-court-orders-n-y-to-approve-choose-life-license-plates-christian-post/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/11/10/federal-court-orders-n-y-to-approve-choose-life-license-plates-christian-post/#comments Thu, 10 Nov 2011 11:42:31 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=118304 Christian Post: Pro-adoption organizations have the right to a specialty license plate on the same terms as any other organization, and the court’s decision affirms that,” ADF Senior Legal Counsel Jeff Shafer said in a statement. “The state is not authorized to censor The Children First Foundation for its life-affirming viewpoint, but it has gotten away with doing so for 10 years now since the application was first submitted.” ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/11/10/federal-court-orders-n-y-to-approve-choose-life-license-plates-christian-post/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/11/10/new-york-court-gives-choose-life-license-plate-a-victory-lifenews-com/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/11/10/new-york-court-gives-choose-life-license-plate-a-victory-lifenews-com/#comments Thu, 10 Nov 2011 11:40:10 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=118302 LifeNews.com: DF Senior Legal Counsel Jeff Shafer told LifeNews today that he’s glad the appeals court has now sided with the Choose Life plates. “Pro-adoption organizations have the right to a specialty license plate on the same terms as any other organization, and the court’s decision affirms that,” he said. “The state is not authorized to censor The Children First Foundation for its life-affirming viewpoint, but it has gotten away with doing so for 10 years now since the application was first submitted.” ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/11/10/new-york-court-gives-choose-life-license-plate-a-victory-lifenews-com/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/11/10/new-york-state-shouldve-allowed-anti-abortion-vanity-plate-federal-judge-in-syracuse-rules-syracuse-com/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/11/10/new-york-state-shouldve-allowed-anti-abortion-vanity-plate-federal-judge-in-syracuse-rules-syracuse-com/#comments Thu, 10 Nov 2011 11:29:53 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=118298 Syracuse.com: The state has denied another 100 or so other requests because of the moratorium, said Jeffry Shafer, a lawyer for the Alliance Defense Fund, which represented Children First. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/11/10/new-york-state-shouldve-allowed-anti-abortion-vanity-plate-federal-judge-in-syracuse-rules-syracuse-com/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/11/10/after-seven-year-lawsuit-federal-court-allows-choose-life-license-plate-fox-news/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/11/10/after-seven-year-lawsuit-federal-court-allows-choose-life-license-plate-fox-news/#comments Thu, 10 Nov 2011 11:23:14 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=118292 Fox News: "Pro-adoption organizations have the right to a specialty license plate on the same terms as any other organization, and the court’s decision affirms that,” said ADF Senior Legal Counsel Jeff Shafer. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/11/10/after-seven-year-lawsuit-federal-court-allows-choose-life-license-plate-fox-news/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/11/10/judge-backs-choose-life-ny-license-plates-ap-on-wsj/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/11/10/judge-backs-choose-life-ny-license-plates-ap-on-wsj/#comments Thu, 10 Nov 2011 11:18:37 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=118288 WSJ.com (AP): Attorney Jeffrey Shafer of the Alliance Defense Fund, who argued on behalf of the foundation, said state lawyers have 30 days to file a notice of appeal. Otherwise, McCurn's order will take effect. He said that would make New York the 29th state with "Choose Life" license plates. "Illinois was kind of an odd turn, an anomalous result," Shafer said. "We've had success in just about every other state we've sought to have some progress in this issue." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/11/10/judge-backs-choose-life-ny-license-plates-ap-on-wsj/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/11/09/court-tells-ny-to-produce-choose-life-license-plates/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/11/09/court-tells-ny-to-produce-choose-life-license-plates/#comments Wed, 09 Nov 2011 17:09:44 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=118242 Examiner.com (photo of Jeffrey A. Shafer): According to the Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) a federal court ruled Tuesday that the state of New York violated the First Amendment when it rejected a pro-adoption group’s application to sponsor a “Choose Life” specialty license plate as part of a state program. Alliance Defense Fund attorneys filed the lawsuit on behalf of The Children First Foundation in 2004. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/11/09/court-tells-ny-to-produce-choose-life-license-plates/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/11/09/victory-for-pro-life-license-plates/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/11/09/victory-for-pro-life-license-plates/#comments Wed, 09 Nov 2011 13:07:46 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=118183 MyFoxNY.com: “Pro-adoption organizations have the right to a specialty license plate on the same terms as any other organization, and the court’s decision affirms that,” said ADF Senior Legal Counsel Jeff Shafer. “The state is not authorized to censor The Children First Foundation for its life-affirming viewpoint, but it has gotten away with doing so for 10 years now since the application was first submitted.” ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/11/09/victory-for-pro-life-license-plates/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/09/15/regent-u-law-rev-symposium-protecting-conscience-harmonizing-religious-liberties-and-the-offering-of-commercial-services/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/09/15/regent-u-law-rev-symposium-protecting-conscience-harmonizing-religious-liberties-and-the-offering-of-commercial-services/#comments Thu, 15 Sep 2011 10:07:18 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=113592 Jeffrey A. Shafer will be participating in this Regent University Law Review Symposium. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/09/15/regent-u-law-rev-symposium-protecting-conscience-harmonizing-religious-liberties-and-the-offering-of-commercial-services/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/03/28/kingsborough-faces-lawsuit-by-republican-club/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/03/28/kingsborough-faces-lawsuit-by-republican-club/#comments Mon, 28 Mar 2011 15:53:05 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=99240 Theticker.org: After numerous instances where he felt he was being censored due to the subject matter of his fliers and events, Hayon and fellow members have filed a lawsuit against the school with the help of the Alliance Defense Fund . . . "The March 9 agreement was a short term resolution that addressed the immediate concerns that the plaintiffs had — that had provoked their request for a hasty injunction hearing with the court. Our agreement at that point did not resolve the case overall," wrote Jeff Shafer, an ADF senior legal counsel, in an email on Friday, March 25. | Related ADF Press Release ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/03/28/kingsborough-faces-lawsuit-by-republican-club/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/03/16/jeff-shafer-sure-you-can-speak-just-pay-us-hundreds-of-dollars-for-the-privilege/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/03/16/jeff-shafer-sure-you-can-speak-just-pay-us-hundreds-of-dollars-for-the-privilege/#comments Wed, 16 Mar 2011 07:40:56 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=98122 Jeff Shafer writes at the Speak Up Movement University Blog: Indirect methods of censorship are often government officials’ most effective means of speech control. Because such restraints on speech are not formally directed to interfering with the speaker’s message (only having the effect of doing so), it allows for both better public relations (“we aren’t intending to censor you”) and the resulting likelihood of diminished resistance from the affected speaker. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/03/16/jeff-shafer-sure-you-can-speak-just-pay-us-hundreds-of-dollars-for-the-privilege/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/01/27/jeff-shafer-structural-inflexibility/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/01/27/jeff-shafer-structural-inflexibility/#comments Thu, 27 Jan 2011 17:32:37 +0000 Admin http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=93718 Jeff Shafer writing at Speak Up Movement / University: "Henry G. Manne penned an essay in 1972 entitled 'The Political Economy of Modern Universities,' in which he observes that the prevailing organizational scheme for operation of the modern university is the model of political systems. It is highly bureaucratized, inflexible, and its design is an impediment to innovation or change . . . Yet we are not without hope of repair. The exponential growth in information technologies and the accompanying future of free, quality e-learning opportunities presaged by such models as Kahn Academy and MIT’s open courses, in conjunction with the revolt of families from the unaccountably high tuition costs and the looming bankruptcy of the public coffers on which our behemoth-budget educational institutions depend, will in time change dramatically the educational landscape." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/01/27/jeff-shafer-structural-inflexibility/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/12/09/pro-lifers-celebrate-nj-approval-of-license-plate/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/12/09/pro-lifers-celebrate-nj-approval-of-license-plate/#comments Thu, 09 Dec 2010 16:13:54 +0000 Admin http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=85564 Christian Post: "'Pro-adoption organizations should be allowed to express their message as part of a program where others are freely allowed to express theirs,' said [Jeff Shafer], legal counsel at the Alliance Defense Fund, in a statement Wednesday. 'The state of New Jersey has done the right thing in agreeing to honor The Children First Foundation’s free speech rights and allowing the "Choose Life" plates, just as it allows many other groups’ plates that promote various causes.'" ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/12/09/pro-lifers-celebrate-nj-approval-of-license-plate/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/12/09/nj-choose-life-plates-finally-allowed-after-six-years/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/12/09/nj-choose-life-plates-finally-allowed-after-six-years/#comments Thu, 09 Dec 2010 16:04:03 +0000 Admin http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=85559 LifeNews: "New Jersey motorists will finally have the option to purchase “Choose Life” license plates now that the state has agreed to end a six year block on them . . . 'Pro-adoption organizations should be allowed to express their message as part of a program where others are freely allowed to express theirs,' said ADF Senior Legal Counsel [Jeff Shafer]." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/12/09/nj-choose-life-plates-finally-allowed-after-six-years/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/12/08/nj-%e2%80%98choose-life%e2%80%99-plates-on-road-to-revival/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/12/08/nj-%e2%80%98choose-life%e2%80%99-plates-on-road-to-revival/#comments Wed, 08 Dec 2010 21:39:15 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=85447 ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/12/08/nj-%e2%80%98choose-life%e2%80%99-plates-on-road-to-revival/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/08/10/new-jersey-governor-chris-christie-asked-to-allow-choose-life-license-plates/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/08/10/new-jersey-governor-chris-christie-asked-to-allow-choose-life-license-plates/#comments Tue, 10 Aug 2010 16:09:35 +0000 Admin http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=68118 LifeNews: "[Jeff Shafer], senior legal director of the Alliance Defense Fund, a pro-life legal group that helped the Children First Foundation, responded to the news. 'The government should not be singling out a pro-adoption group for censorship. Censoring the 'Choose Life' logo on New Jersey license plates is a textbook case of viewpoint discrimination, which blatantly defies the First Amendment,' he said. 'We are pleased that the appellate court has reinstated this lawsuit and look forward to the full vindication of the foundation’s free speech rights.'" ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/08/10/new-jersey-governor-chris-christie-asked-to-allow-choose-life-license-plates/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/07/12/jeff-shafer-the-indoctrinating-power-of-exclusion/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/07/12/jeff-shafer-the-indoctrinating-power-of-exclusion/#comments Mon, 12 Jul 2010 22:18:03 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/07/12/jeff-shafer-the-indoctrinating-power-of-exclusion/ ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/07/12/jeff-shafer-the-indoctrinating-power-of-exclusion/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/05/13/jeff-shafer-stigma-and-dogma-revisited/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/05/13/jeff-shafer-stigma-and-dogma-revisited/#comments Thu, 13 May 2010 16:22:42 +0000 Admin http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=60635 Jeff Shafer writing at speakupmovement.org/university: "Our educational institutions have made systemic the exclusion of outlooks that deviate from their shared rigid definition of acceptable rationality. As one prominent example, the Rawlsian ideal of 'public reason'—as ubiquitous in its dominance as encompassing in its prohibitions—forbids Christian and other religious presuppositions from participation in public discourse. That this involves de-privileging a framework of understanding that historically informed Western Civilization seems, for that reason, a considerable affront. But it is just there that its explanation is found. An intellectual rival has gained ascendancy, and is not inclined to give any latitude to its vanquished—and loathed—predecessor." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/05/13/jeff-shafer-stigma-and-dogma-revisited/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/04/13/new-jersey-choose-life-license-plates-revived-by-federal-appeals-court-after-lawsuit/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/04/13/new-jersey-choose-life-license-plates-revived-by-federal-appeals-court-after-lawsuit/#comments Tue, 13 Apr 2010 16:47:55 +0000 Admin http://www.alliancealert.org/wordpress/?p=57906 LifeNews: "A federal appeals court has revived the effort of a New Jersey pro-life group hoping to make it so motorists in the Garden State can purchase Choose Life license plates . . . 'The government should not be singling out a pro-adoption group for censorship. Censoring the "Choose Life" logo on New Jersey license plates is a textbook case of viewpoint discrimination, which blatantly defies the First Amendment,' [ADF Attorney Jeff Shafer] said." | ADF News Release ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/04/13/new-jersey-choose-life-license-plates-revived-by-federal-appeals-court-after-lawsuit/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/04/12/fight-over-choose-life-slogan-on-nj-tags-revived/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/04/12/fight-over-choose-life-slogan-on-nj-tags-revived/#comments Mon, 12 Apr 2010 16:25:57 +0000 Admin http://www.alliancealert.org/wordpress/?p=57732 PhillyBurbs.com (AP): "A nonprofit group's effort to get a specialty New Jersey license plate with the tagline "Choose Life" has been revived by a federal appeals court. ... The case will now be sent back to U.S. District Judge Joel A. Pisano for further proceedings. 'Censoring the "Choose Life" logo on New Jersey license plates is a textbook case of viewpoint discrimination, which blatantly defies the First Amendment,' said [Jeff Shafer], senior legal director of the Alliance Defense Fund, a conservative legal group that backed the suit." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/04/12/fight-over-choose-life-slogan-on-nj-tags-revived/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/04/09/nj-%e2%80%98choose-life%e2%80%99-license-plates-case-renewed-in-courtroom/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/04/09/nj-%e2%80%98choose-life%e2%80%99-license-plates-case-renewed-in-courtroom/#comments Fri, 09 Apr 2010 18:12:51 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/wordpress/2010/04/09/nj-%e2%80%98choose-life%e2%80%99-license-plates-case-renewed-in-courtroom/ ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/04/09/nj-%e2%80%98choose-life%e2%80%99-license-plates-case-renewed-in-courtroom/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/03/01/about-jeff-shafer/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/03/01/about-jeff-shafer/#comments Mon, 01 Mar 2010 17:23:27 +0000 Admin http://www.alliancealert.org/wordpress/?p=56156 ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/03/01/about-jeff-shafer/feed/ 9 http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/10/09/court-focuses-on-side-issue-in-cross-case/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/10/09/court-focuses-on-side-issue-in-cross-case/#comments Fri, 09 Oct 2009 15:51:52 +0000 Admin http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=38515 Baptist Press: "The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments Oct. 7 on the display of a cross in the middle of federal land but seemed to indicate it would not address whether the war memorial violated the First Amendment's ban on government establishment of religion . . . 'I walked in thinking this was going to be predominantly a question of standing that was going to be addressed, but it seems that the court really was more focused on the minutiae of the posture' of the case, said Shafer, senior legal counsel for ADF." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/10/09/court-focuses-on-side-issue-in-cross-case/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/08/31/church-post-office-are-package-deal-in-manchester-conn/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/08/31/church-post-office-are-package-deal-in-manchester-conn/#comments Mon, 31 Aug 2009 16:24:17 +0000 Admin http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=34709 Connecticut Law Tribune: "On Aug. 20, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously ruled that U.S. District Judge Dominick Squatrito’s injunction against all religious paraphernalia went too far. It ordered the removal of the collection jar and prayer literature from the postal counter, with further instructions that the district court divide the church and post office areas of the room . . . [Jeffrey A. Shafer] argued the case before the Second Circuit, and is a senior litigation attorney for ADF. Speaking generally, he said his clients would like to make it harder for a citizen like Cooper to make a federal case out of mere 'discomfort' over a religious display." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/08/31/church-post-office-are-package-deal-in-manchester-conn/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/08/20/court-order-to-purge-religious-displays-from-part-of-church-run-store-reversed/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/08/20/court-order-to-purge-religious-displays-from-part-of-church-run-store-reversed/#comments Thu, 20 Aug 2009 21:56:34 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=33791 ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/08/20/court-order-to-purge-religious-displays-from-part-of-church-run-store-reversed/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/04/23/jeff-schafer-on-kfuo-am-with-paul-clayton-choose-life-license-plate-litigation/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/04/23/jeff-schafer-on-kfuo-am-with-paul-clayton-choose-life-license-plate-litigation/#comments Thu, 23 Apr 2009 17:55:51 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=22098 KFUO AM with Paul Clayton to discuss pending "choose life" license plate litigation. The mp3 runs just over 10 minutes. Links to ADF press releases on "Choose Life" litigation. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/04/23/jeff-schafer-on-kfuo-am-with-paul-clayton-choose-life-license-plate-litigation/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/04/15/abortion-debate-moves-to-special-license-plates/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/04/15/abortion-debate-moves-to-special-license-plates/#comments Wed, 15 Apr 2009 15:17:53 +0000 Admin http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=21257 Associated Press: "It's really inescapable that the Legislature was welcoming in a number of viewpoints," said Jeff Shafer, senior legal counsel for the Alliance Defense Fund. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/04/15/abortion-debate-moves-to-special-license-plates/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/04/15/new-jersey-choose-life-license-plates-get-hearing-at-federal-appeals-court/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/04/15/new-jersey-choose-life-license-plates-get-hearing-at-federal-appeals-court/#comments Wed, 15 Apr 2009 15:16:12 +0000 Admin http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=21255 LifeNews: “A pro-adoption organization shouldn’t be censored just because certain government officials don’t share its viewpoint,” Shafer told LifeNews.com. “This is private speech, not government speech. State officials step into unconstitutional territory when they reject specialty plate messages that depart from their own viewpoint preferences.” ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/04/15/new-jersey-choose-life-license-plates-get-hearing-at-federal-appeals-court/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/04/14/media-event-following-nj-choose-life-license-plate-hearing-at-3rd-circuit-court-of-appeals/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/04/14/media-event-following-nj-choose-life-license-plate-hearing-at-3rd-circuit-court-of-appeals/#comments Tue, 14 Apr 2009 15:22:51 +0000 Admin http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=21111 The Children First Foundation (Christian News Wire): "In an ADF press release issued yesterday regarding the federal lawsuit ADF filed against New Jersey state officials entitled The Children First Foundation v. Legreide, Jeff Shafer stated, "A pro-adoption organization shouldn't be censored just because certain government officials don't share its viewpoint. This is private speech, not governement speech. State officials step into unconstitutional territory when they reject specialty plate messages that depart from their own viewpoint preferences." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/04/14/media-event-following-nj-choose-life-license-plate-hearing-at-3rd-circuit-court-of-appeals/feed/ 0