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* FFRF v. Thompson-In February 1996, a federal district court ruled that Wisconsin's Good Friday holiday was a First Amendment violation because it's sole purpose " was the promotion of religion.
* FFRF v. Montana Faith-Health Cooperative-In October 2004, the Federal District Court for the District of Montana held that the state's " direct and preferential funding of inherently and pervasively religious parish nursing programs was undertaken for the impermissible purpose, and has the impermissible effect, of favoring and advancing the integration of religion into the provision of secular health care services.
* FFRF v. HHS-In lawsuit ending in January 2005, a court vacated HHS's funding of a Christian organization, MentorKids, because the " federal funds have been used by the MentorKids program to advance religion in violation of the Establishment Clause.
* FFRF v. U. S. Department of Education-In April 2005, FFRF and the USDOE settled a lawsuit, with the USDOE agreeing not to distribute $ 435, 000 of federal funds to the Alaska Christian College, a Bible college run by the Evangelical Covenant Church of Alaska.
* FFRF v. Rhea County Schools (" Scopes II ")-This litigation occurred in the same place as the famous Scopes Trial, hence the nickname Scopes II.
* FFRF v. Univ.
* FFRF v. Gonzales-The May 2006, challenge to faith-based prison programs forced the Federal Bureau of Prisons to " cancel " " at least five single faith " programs.
* FFRF v. Indiana Family & Social Services-May 2, 2007 challenge of the creation of a chaplaincy for the Indiana Family and Social Services Administration ( FSSA ).
* FFRF v. City of Green Bay-In December 2007, FFRF challenged a nativity scene at Green Bay's city hall.
* Doe v. School Board of Giles County, VA-In September 2011, FFRF and the ACLU brought suit on behalf of anonymous plaintiffs against Giles County challenging a Ten Commandments display at Narrows High School.
* FFRF v. Town of Whiteville, TN-In August 2012, FFRF and the town settled the FFRF lawsuit challenging a Latin cross displayed on top of the town's water tower.
* FFRF v. Department of Veterans Affairs-April 19, 2006 challenge of the pervasive integration of " spirituality " into health care by the Department of Veteran Affairs was stayed while the Supreme Court considered the Hein case and dismissed after Hein was decided for lack of standing.
" In 1985, FFRF gave the first award to Ishmael Jaffree plaintiff in the Supreme Court case Wallace v. Jaffree, 472 U. S. 38 ( 1985 ).

FFRF and .
The Freedom From Religion Foundation ( FFRF ) uses the pansy symbol extensively in its lapel pins and literature.
The Freedom From Religion Foundation ( FFRF ) is a national, non-profit organization based in Madison, Wisconsin, with members from all 50 states.
The FFRF publishes the newspaper Freethought Today.
The FFRF was co-founded by Anne Nicol Gaylor and her daughter, Annie Laurie Gaylor, in 1976 and was incorporated nationally in 1978.
According to the 2011 IRS tax Form-990, FFRF spent just over $ 200, 000 on legal fees and services and just under $ 1 million on education, outreach, publishing, broadcasting, and events.
FFRF also has a paid staff of twelve, including four full-time staff attorneys.
She edited the FFRF newspaper Freethought Today until July, 2008.
Her husband, Dan Barker, author of Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher to Atheist ( ISBN 1-877733-07-5 ), Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America ’ s Leading Atheists ( ISBN 1569756775 ), The Good Atheist: Living a Purpose-Filled Life Without God ( ISBN 1569758468 ), and Just Pretend: A Freethought Book for Children, is a musician and songwriter, a former Pentecostal Christian minister, and co-president of the FFRF.
The Seventh Circuit later ruled against FFRF on the narrower of whether or not prisoners joining specific faith based programs on their own free will or are coerced by the government endorsement of religion.

FFRF and Faith
of Minnesota-In September 2005, the University of Minnesota agreed to cease its partnership with the " Minnesota Faith Health Consortium, a partnership with Luther Seminary, which is affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America, and Fairview Health Services ," and to cease teaching " courses on the intersection of faith and health " and FFRF agreed to drop its lawsuit on those same issues.

FFRF and court
FFRF is concerned about the government's respect for the separation of church and state, which the court intends to address.

FFRF and decided
* On July 24, 2012, after receiving a letter from FFRF, the Steubenville, Ohio city council decided to remove the image of the Christ the King Chapel at the Franciscan University of Steubenville from its town logo.
After the government decided the nativity scene would remain, FFRF petitioned to have a banner placed on the square near the nativity scene, but a decision to consider the request was not heard before Christmas.

FFRF and was
After FFRF wrote three initial letters, but before the lawsuit was filed, the town removed one arm of the cross.
* In April 2011, the U. S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed FFRF's challenge to the National Day of Prayer holding that FFRF did not have standing to challenge the NDoP statute or proclamations and that only the President was injured enough to challenge the NDoP statute.
As a result of the letter from FFRF, a rally was held at the Henderson County Courthouse where an estimated 5, 000 people attended.
FFRF put up their own banner by the nativity scene, but it was removed by Henderson County deputies because there was no approved permit for the banner to be displayed on county property.

FFRF and public
The FFRF describes the award as " celebrating ' plain speaking ' on the shortcomings of religion by public figures ".
* FFRF has asked the city of Woonsocket, Rhode Island to remove a the Latin cross from a World War 1 and 2 memorial on public land.

v and .
Lincoln denounced the Supreme Court decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford as a conspiracy to extend slavery.
In March 1857, the Supreme Court issued its decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford ; Chief Justice Roger B. Taney opined that blacks were not citizens, and derived no rights from the Constitution.
One example of this ( from the Queen's Bench in England ) is Doyle v Olby ( Ironmongers ) Ltd 2 QB 158, the claimant appealed ( successfully ) on the basis that, although he won in the court below, the lower court had applied the wrong measure of damages and he had not been fully recompensated.
" " Graham v. Borgen ", 483 F 3d.
* Emperor Charles I. of Austria ( 1916 1918 ) http :// www. youtube. com / watch? v = jMU9FFzez1A
* Emperor Franz Joseph ( 1848 1916 ) http :// www. youtube. com / watch? v = jecUwMPk8pE & feature = related
The doctrine that no man can cast off his native allegiance without the consent of his sovereign was early abandoned in the United States, and Chief Justice John Rutledge also declared in Talbot v. Janson, " a man may, at the same time, enjoy the rights of citizenship under two governments.
Austrian economics, 3 v. Edward Elgar.
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Part of Title I was found unconstitutional by the United States Supreme Court as it pertains to states in the case of Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama v. Garrett as violating the sovereign immunity rights of the several states as specified by the Eleventh Amendment to the United States Constitution.
In fact, Congress explicitly cited Toyota v. Williams in the text of the ADAAA itself as one of its driving influences for passing the ADAAA.
Access Now v. Southwest Airlines
Access Now v. Southwest Airlines was a case where the District Court decided that the website of Southwest Airlines was not in violation of the Americans with Disability Act because the ADA is concerned with things with a physical existence and thus cannot be applied to cyberspace.

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