* 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. Faith Works – In January 2002, a federal district court decided that Faith Works, a faith-based addiction treatment program, was receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars in public money in violation of the Establishment Clause.

* 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.

After FFRF wrote three initial letters, but before the lawsuit was filed, the town removed one arm of the cross.

* 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 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.

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.

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.

The FFRF describes the award as " celebrating ' plain speaking ' on the shortcomings of religion by public figures ".

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 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.

It is hosted by the co-presidents of FFRF, Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor.

The conventions typically include speakers, awards, “ NonPrayer Breakfasts " with " moments of bedlam ," and piano music by FFRF Co-President Dan Barker.

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.

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.

With Franc-Nohain and Claude Terrasse, he co-founded the Théatre des Pantins, which in 1898 was the site of marionette performances of Ubu Roi.

In the same year, she co-founded London School of Medicine for Women with Sophie Jex-Blake and became a lecturer in what was the only teaching hospital in Britain to offer courses for women.

In 1995, Stephen Greenberg co-founded Classic Sports Network with Brian Bedol, which was purchased by ESPN and became ESPN Classic.

It was co-founded by Steven Frank and Henry Burkhardt III, who had formerly helped found Data General and Encore Computer and was one of the original team that designed the PDP-8.

Before going into film-making, Anderson was a prominent film critic writing for the influential Sequence magazine ( 1947 – 52 ), which he co-founded with Gavin Lambert and Karel Reisz ; later writing for the British Film Institute's journal Sight and Sound and the left-wing political weekly the New Statesman.

He was critical of its ties with Fine Gael and had co-founded the short lived Socialist Labour Party in 1977 after leaving the Labour Party.

On December 11, 2005, The Paramount Motion Pictures Group announced that it had purchased DreamWorks SKG ( which was co-founded by former Paramount executive Jeffrey Katzenberg ) in a deal worth $ 1. 6 billion.

Nelson co-founded Itty bitty machine company, or " ibm ", which was a small computer retail store operating from 1977 to 1980 in Evanston, Illinois.

At Yale, he was a member of the Linonian Society, a literary and debating society ; Skull and Bones, the secret society co-founded by his father in 1832 ; and the Beta chapter of the Psi Upsilon fraternity.

The company was co-founded in 1979 by Robert Metcalfe, Howard Charney, Bruce Borden, and Greg Shaw.

Until then, Case was the vice president of Monkeystone Games, a game development company she co-founded with Romero.

" Jacques Foccart, who had also co-founded the Gaullist Service d ' Action Civique ( SAC, dissolved by Mitterrand in 1982 ) along with Charles Pasqua, and who was a key component of the " Françafrique " system, was again called to the Elysée Palace when Chirac won the 1995 presidential election.

He was active in science fiction fandom and in the early years of the Society for Creative Anachronism under the name " Yang the Nauseating ", and co-founded the Great Dark Horde in 1971.

Abbot Howard " Abbie " Hoffman ( November 30, 1936 – April 12, 1989 ) was a political and social activist who co-founded the Youth International Party (" Yippies ").

Newman co-founded the camp in 1988 ; it was named after the gang in his film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid ( 1969 ).

Produced by Felix Pappalardi ( who later co-founded the Cream-influenced quartet Mountain ) and engineer Tom Dowd, it was recorded at Atlantic Studios in New York.

William George Rushton, commonly known as Willie Rushton ( 18 August 1937 – 11 December 1996 ) was an English cartoonist, satirist, comedian, actor and performer who co-founded the Private Eye satirical magazine.

It was co-founded by Benitez and two Scientologists, Henning Heldt and Arthur Maren.

The NRDC was co-founded in 1970 by John Adams, Richard Ayres, John Bryson, Edward Strohbehn, and Gus Speth, together with a board of scientists and attorneys at the forefront of the environmental movement.

A number of staff from Sunrise have gone on to form independent animation companies which have become well known in their own rights: Studio Deen was co-founded by Hiroshi Hasegawa and Takeshi Mochida, Bones was co-founded by Masahiko Minami, Toshihiro Kawamoto, and the late Hiroshi Ōsaka, and Manglobe was co-founded by Shinichirō Kobayashi and Takashi Kochiyama.