LJC In The News
Food Truck Owners Sue for Right to Sell in Evanston
(The Chicago Tribune)—James Nuccio and Gabriel Wiesen want to sell gourmet doughnuts and coffee from their colorful food truck on the streets of Evanston. But a 2010 ordinance only allows businesses that have “bricks and mortar” restaurants in Evanston to venture onto city streets with a food truck. Nuccio and...
Illinois Nurses Denied Religious Vaccine Exemptions
(Fox Business News)—Daniel Suhr, managing attorney at Liberty Justice Center, joined Varney & Co on Fox Business to discuss a new lawsuit on behalf of six Illinois nurses who were denied religious exemptions in violation of Illinois law. Liberty Justice Center is representing the nurses in the lawsuit Panozzo v....
Defending Religious Freedom
(Sean Hannity Show)—Daniel Suhr, Managing attorney at the Liberty Justice Center, joined The Sean Hannity show to discuss Panozzo v. Riverside Healthcare, a new case filed on behalf of six nurses in Illinois whose religious exemptions were denied.
...Chicagoland Nurses Challenge Illinois Vaccine Mandate
(Fox News)–Liberty Justice Center managing attorney Daniel Suhr and Nurse Practitioner Neelie Panozzo joined Fox @ Night to discuss religious exemptions for healthcare workers. Liberty Justice Center is representing six nurses in the lawsuit Panozzo v. Riverside Health, which challenges the hospital’s illegal denial of all religious exemption requests.
...These Catholic And Historically Black Colleges Were Denied COVID Relief. The NAACP And Its Georgetown Legal Team Fought To Make That Happen.
(The Daily Wire)—If you didn’t know better, you might think that racism and anti-Catholicism are alive and well among several groups purportedly dedicated to rooting out just that sort of prejudice. In an eyebrow-raising move, lawyers at Georgetown University, a Catholic institution, teamed up with the NAACP, the civil rights...
Experts Debate Legality of Biden’s Vaccine Mandate
(ABC 7 News)—Legal experts are weighing in on whether President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandate will hold up in court. Some say the federal government does have the right to mandate vaccines, while others argue the president doesn’t have the authority to issue such a requirement. Former Harvard Law School professor...
Federal Government Using Social-Media Giants to Censor Americans
(New York Post)—Ask questions or post content about COVID-19 that runs counter to the Biden administration’s narrative and find yourself censored on social media. That’s precisely what data analyst and digital strategist Justin Hart says happened to him. And so last week the Liberty Justice Center, a public-interest law firm,...
Suing Facebook for Blocking the Truth
(NewsMax | Cortes & Pellegrino Show)—Hart v. Facebook plaintiff Justin Hart and Liberty Justice Center’s Daniel Suhr appeared on Newsmax’s Cortes & Pellegrino show to discuss the case. Liberty Justice Center is representing data analyst Justin Hart in a federal lawsuit against Facebook, Twitter, President Joe Biden, and the U.S....
Eviction Moratorium Faces State and Federal Lawsuits
(The Center Square)–The eviction moratorium faces two legal challenges from Illinois. One case is focused on the latest federal moratorium from President Joe Biden’s administration and one targets Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s order. As the pandemic began in the spring of 2020, the federal government issued a moratorium on evictions as...
CDC Has No Authority to Stop Evictions Nationwide
(NBC 5 Chicago)—A lawsuit filed Thursday in the Northern District Court of Illinois is the second and latest challenge to the Biden Administration’s attempt to halt all residential evictions from taking place nationwide amidst a surge in coronavirus cases. Two landlords with properties in Cook, DuPage, and Will Counties —...
Illinois Rental Owners File New Lawsuit to End Federal Eviction Ban
(23 WIFR)-Illinois property owners filed a federal lawsuit challenging the U.S. Centers for Disease Control’s (CDC) eviction ban. “While the Biden Administration claims the eviction ban provides relief to struggling Americans, it does so by passing on hardships to other Americans—property owners,” according to the Liberty Justice Center. The...
Bigotry and Cares Act Cash
(Wall Street Journal)—A federal lawsuit in South Carolina is taking direct aim at one of the state’s uglier legacies: the Blaine Amendment embedded in its state constitution. Blaine Amendments are a relic of 19th-century prejudice, and meant to deny public funding for religious (read: Catholic) schools. More recently the state...
Ex-MassHealth Official Sues after Being Fired for Comments in Milton Facebook Group
(The Patriot Ledger)—A former MassHealth official from Milton is suing the state and her former bosses for firing her over her comments she made in the Milton Neighbors Facebook group, where she compared some of the state’s policies to Nazi Germany. Denise Foley, formerly MassHealth’s director of internal and external...
Facebook Faces Lawsuit for Suspending User Who Cited Lack of Evidence for Masking Children
(Just the News)—An influential COVID policy skeptic is threatening to sue Facebook for suspending his account based on a graphic he posted Tuesday, titled “Masking Children is Impractical and Not Backed by Research or Real World Data.” Justin Hart was identified in a recent MIT paper as one of a...
Taking Woke Education to Court
(Real Clear Education)—Free speech rights for students have always been a difficult issue because schools have unique needs and concerns. But whether it was black armbands to protest the Vietnam War or a picture of Jesus in an art class, courts have consistently recognized that the First Amendment does not...