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Victory for Workers' Rights: The Liberty Justice Center successfully sued a New Jersey union that violated a local plumber’s constitutional rights and tried to justify the violation through word games—claiming that a Supreme Court decision didn't apply because the union called the money illegally taken from his paychecks “assessments” rather than “dues.”
Filed August 1, 2024
Victory for Voters' Rights: The Liberty Justice Center successfully sued the Illinois State Board of Elections for violating the constitutional right to vote by repealing a campaign law mid-election.
Filed May 10, 2024
Victory for Workers' Rights: The Liberty Justice Center successfully defended an Ohio school district employee who quit her union—only to be told four months later that the union had begun taking dues from her paycheck again.
Filed February 20, 2024
Tim Tizon, a student at Arizona State University, was handing out pamphlets of the U.S. Constitution to students on a campus plaza when university officials ordered him to stop. When Tizon refused to move to an isolated location away from the main campus plaza, university police arrested him.
Filed January 26, 2023
Victory for Free Speech: Thanks to two doctors who stood up for the First Amendment, California has repealed its physician censorship law.
Filed October 4, 2022
Victory for Educational Freedom: MAIS, representing 125 schools and 45,000 students in Mississippi, successfully urged the Mississippi Supreme Court to allow federal COVID-19 relief funds to reach the independent schools they were meant for.
Filed August 11, 2022
Chancey v. ISBE challenged two Illinois campaign finance laws that illegally placed restrictions on only certain Americans in specific races.
Filed August 3, 2022
In New York, absentee balloting is a privilege and an exception to the normal rule of in-person voting. The state constitution grants the legislature limited authority to allow absentee voting in instances when a voter is away from their residence, ill or disabled.
Filed July 20, 2022
Two Chicago Public School teachers and two parents are suing the Illinois State Board of Elections and state officials to ensure Illinois voters do not face an unconstitutional choice at the ballot box this November.
Filed April 21, 2022
The Liberty Justice Center is challenging the federal Head Start Mandate, arguing that it does not follow the lawful ruling process, exceeds federal agencies' delegated authority, and violates the U.S. Constitution.
Filed February 23, 2022
Residents of Chicago and Cook County have filed a lawsuit to end the City of Chicago and Cook County’s illegal “proof of vaccination” requirements.
Filed February 10, 2022
A group of Michigan school districts filed a lawsuit challenging the mandate in January 2022. Now two of those districts, Livingston Educational Services Agency and Wayne-Westland Community Schools are continuing their legal fight against the Biden administration at the United States Court of Appeals, with free representation from the Liberty Justice Center.
Filed January 20, 2022
The Head Start vaccine mandate is illegal because it does not follow the lawful ruling process, it exceeds the authority given to HHS by Congress and it violates the U.S. Constitution.
Filed December 22, 2021
Conner v. Biden was filed on behalf of four 3M employees, designated as federal contractors, who face losing their jobs if they don't disclose their vaccination status to their employer.
Filed December 8, 2021
Nolechek’s Meats, a small, family-run business in Wisconsin, is fighting back against the Biden Administration's use of the USDA to implement its partisan public health agenda.
Filed December 2, 2021
The Liberty Justice Center and the Pelican Institute for Public Policy filed suit in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to stop the Biden Administration from imposing an illegal COVID-19 vaccine mandate on nearly 100 million Americans.
Filed November 5, 2021
Steele is fighting his state’s outdated and unconstitutional mandate that his teachers union maintain “exclusive representation” of him in salary negotiations, grievance procedures and other matters — whether or not he is a member.
Filed September 28, 2021
Liberty Justice Center is fighting back against free speech violations and censorship in Hart v. Facebook, a lawsuit filed against Facebook, Twitter, President Joe Biden and the U.S. Surgeon General.
Filed August 31, 2021
Extended eviction bans are violating hardworking Americans’ property rights. Rahman v. CDV seeks to restore those constitutional rights.
Filed August 12, 2021
By ignoring the U.S. Supreme Court and forcing charitable organizations to turn over the donors' private information, New York is violating Americans' right to free speech.
Filed July 14, 2021
The Liberty Justice Center is demanding New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal immediately abandon the state's disclosure requirements and align their requirements with the decision in Bonta.
Filed July 13, 2021
A Tennessee farmer filed a federal lawsuit against the United States Department of Agriculture over a loan program that illegally discriminates against them based on the color of their skin.
Filed June 15, 2021
Parents have filed a lawsuit against the Loudoun County School Board for denying their students equal treatment and violating their right to free speech.
Filed June 2, 2021
Free association and expression is not limited to some activities and not others, even during times of health crisis.
Filed May 10, 2021
Children have a right to be learning in a classroom environment. All students deserve equal access to in-person learning, especially when it is guaranteed by law.
Filed May 3, 2021
Students and schools should not suffer the loss of relief funds because of outdated language. Educational equity is essential to the American way.
Filed April 14, 2021
Sneaky legislation that delegates congressional legislative authority to administrative agencies is still a violation of the U.S. Constitution.
Filed March 15, 2021
A group of parents are standing up to the Chicago Teachers Union after 300,000+ students were locked out of in-person learning at Chicago Public Schools.
Filed January 7, 2022
Las Vegas parent Gabrielle Clark filed a lawsuit against Democracy Prep Public schools for violating the First Amendment’s prohibition on compelled speech.
Filed December 22, 2020
Providing educational choice in education means also providing equal access to that choice, even for those with disabilities.
Filed December 21, 2020
Students do not lose their protected rights just because they live on a university campus.
Filed October 29, 2020
School choice programs are an essential element to educational freedom and must be defended.
Filed October 26, 2020
Teachers unions cannot use work stoppage, to the detriment of children, to force the district to meet its demands.
Filed October 20, 2020
Two primary concerns led the Cook County Republican Party to file Cook County Republican Party v. Pritzker to block Illinois' vote-by-mail program.
Filed August 10, 2020
The Liberty Justice Center represented Palmetto Promise Institute in their fight to restore SAFE Grants for South Carolina students.
Filed July 28, 2020
Illinois Right to Life v. Pritzker centers on the governor’s willingness to excuse some organizations from the limits in his executive orders, but not all.
Filed June 23, 2020
Illinois Republican Party v. Pritzker highlights the selective and arbitrary nature of Gov. Pritzker’s Executive Order regarding group gatherings.
Filed June 15, 2020
A reporter was banned from the Illinois governor’s COVID-19 press briefings after he deemed her an "impartial journalist."
Filed June 1, 2020
The class action lawsuit Brown v. AFSCME seeks a refund of the union fees that the U.S. Supreme Court ruled were illegal to require.
Filed May 8, 2020
Minnesota Association of Professional Employees (MAPE) collected fees for years from workers who did not want to join a union. The lawsuit against MAPE could recover as much as $5.8 million for state employees.
Filed May 8, 2020
South Suburban College public safety officers filed a lawsuit after their employer and union refused to stop deducting money from their paychecks for union dues.
Filed May 5, 2020
Chicago teacher sues union violating her rights.
Filed April 3, 2020
Two Alaska state employees have filed a lawsuit against the state and ASEA after they were forced to pay union dues against their will.
Filed March 12, 2020
The Gaspee Project et al. v. Mederos seeks to restore Rhode Islanders' ability to speak out and support causes they believe in without fear of retribution.
Filed November 21, 2019
Filed on behalf of Pennsylvania state employees, Schaszberger v. AFSCME Council 13, demands a refund of the nonmember fees employees were forced to pay.
Filed November 7, 2019
The New York Department of Public Service's attempts to withhold information from government workers is a blatant campaign to stop them from exercising their First Amendment right not to pay a government union.
Filed October 25, 2019
Ms. Halloran is suing AFSCME Council 5 for pressuring her to sign a union card, providing misleading information about union membership and violating her First Amendment rights.
Filed September 16, 2019
The Liberty Justice Center challenged a New Jersey statute which would require advocacy groups to publicize donors' personal information, infringing on their right to privacy, free speech, and freedom of association.
Filed September 11, 2019
Companies bidding for state contracts have a right to not be discriminated against based on their support of any given candidate.
Filed August 27, 2019
Employees should not be misled to believe they must join a union when it is their right to deny participation without consent.
Filed July 30, 2019