Author Archive for Thomas More Law Center

HHS Mandate Challenge Headed to the Supreme Court
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HHS Mandate Challenge Headed to the Supreme Court

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The Thomas More Law Center (TMLC), a public interest law firm based in Ann Arbor, MI, late Tuesday, filed a Petition for Writ of Certiorari with the Supreme Court asking for review of the HHS Mandate Challenge filed by the Law Center on behalf of Michael Potter and his natural food company, Eden Foods. Erin […]

Catholic Priest Allowed to Hold Religious Services at Naval Base Again
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Catholic Priest Allowed to Hold Religious Services at Naval Base Again

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The Government capitulated just one day after the Thomas More Law Center (TMLC), a public interest law firm based in Ann Arbor, MI, filed a federal lawsuit challenging the Department of Defense’s actions which prohibited a Catholic Priest from celebrating Mass at a Naval base under threat of arrest and barred the Chapel to Catholic […]

Government Shuts Down Catholic Services on Navy Base
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Government Shuts Down Catholic Services on Navy Base

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In the wake of the government shutdown, despite provisions in the Pay Our Military Act, Catholics at Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base in Georgia are being denied religious services. The Catholic priest who serves this community has been prohibited from even volunteering to celebrate Holy Mass without pay, and was told that if he violated […]

Federal Judge Rules in Favor of Free Speech in Michigan
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Federal Judge Rules in Favor of Free Speech in Michigan

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The Thomas More Law Center today announces a victory in their lawsuit against teacher Johnson McDowell of Howell High School in Howell, Michigan.  Federal District Judge Patrick J. Duggan of the Eastern District of Michigan issued his opinion yesterday. The Court declared the teacher’s actions in punishing Daniel Glowacki for expressing his beliefs against homosexuality […]

Religious Beliefs of Four Brothers Prompts Challenge to the HHS Mandate
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Religious Beliefs of Four Brothers Prompts Challenge to the HHS Mandate

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This week the Thomas More Law Center (TMLC) filed a lawsuit in the Federal District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan challenging the Obama Administration’s HHS Mandate.  The lawsuit was brought on behalf four brothers, Terrence, John, James and Christopher Nagle and their family-owned business, M&N Plastics, Inc.  The case has been assigned to […]

POW Admiral Jeremiah Denton Released From Captivity Forty Years Ago Today
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POW Admiral Jeremiah Denton Released From Captivity Forty Years Ago Today

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Forty years ago today,  Navy Admiral Jeremiah Denton was freed from captivity as a POW by the North Vietnamese in Hanoi.  In May 2007, Admiral Denton agreed to serve as Chairman of the Thomas More Law Center’s Citizens Advisory Board. Admiral Jeremiah Denton served as United States Naval Aviator during the Vietnam War and was the […]

Reply Filed in HHS Mandate Case
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Reply Filed in HHS Mandate Case

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The Thomas More Law Center (TMLC) filed a 22-page Reply to the Government’s opposition of its motion for a Preliminary Injunction to stop implementation of the HHS mandate.  The Law Center’s motion was filed on behalf of Legatus, a nonprofit organization of Catholic business leaders and Michigan-based Weingartz Supply Company, and its owner Daniel Weingartz.  […]

Court Asked to Immediately Stop the HHS Mandate
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Court Asked to Immediately Stop the HHS Mandate

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The Thomas More Law Center, a national public interest law firm based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, today announced it has filed an emergency motion asking that Federal District Judge Robert H. Cleland of the Eastern District of Michigan stop the HHS Mandate which goes into effect on August 1, 2012.  The motion was filed late […]

Abortion Clinics’ Attempt to Squash Pro-Life Speech Fails
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Abortion Clinics’ Attempt to Squash Pro-Life Speech Fails

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The video produced by an abortion mill, Northland Family Planning Clinics, “Every Day, Good Women Choose Abortion” sought to persuade young women facing unwanted pregnancies that abortion is a “good” and “normal” decision.   However, when two pro-life organizations, Center for Bio-Ethical Reform (“CBR”) and The Apologetics Group produced parodies of their video, the outraged […]

Catholic Business Leaders File Federal Lawsuit Challenging HHS Mandate
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Catholic Business Leaders File Federal Lawsuit Challenging HHS Mandate

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The Thomas More Law Center, a national public interest law firm based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, today announced it has filed a federal lawsuit challenging the HHS mandate, on behalf of Legatus, the Nation’s largest organization of top Catholic business CEOs and professional leaders. Also joining in the lawsuit as Plaintiffs are the Weingartz Supply […]

Sixth Circuit’s Obamacare Decision on the Way to the Supreme Court
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Sixth Circuit’s Obamacare Decision on the Way to the Supreme Court

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Yesterday, in a split 2-1 decision, a divided panel of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the constitutionality of Obamacare in the case of Thomas More Law Center v. Barack Hussein Obama, the first case to challenge the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.  The Thomas More Law Center will ask the U.S. Supreme […]

TEA Party Sues City of Coldwater, Michigan Over Free Speech Rights
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TEA Party Sues City of Coldwater, Michigan Over Free Speech Rights

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The Thomas More Law Center announced [Wednesday] that it has filed a federal lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan against the City of Coldwater on behalf of the Common Sense Patriots of Branch County and two of its members, Barbara Brady and Martin Lepper, alleging that the City’s recent […]

Free Speech Wins in Battle Over Anti-Jihad Bus Ads
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Free Speech Wins in Battle Over Anti-Jihad Bus Ads

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A Michigan Federal Judge yesterday ordered a Detroit-area transportation authority to display an anti-Jihad advertisement on its buses. Judge Denise Page Hood granted an injunction request filed by the Thomas More Law Center (TMLC) to reverse the bus authority’s refusal to display the ads, which state, “Fatwa on your head? Is your family or community […]

Dearborn, MI Officials Sued to End Their Imposition of Sharia Law
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Dearborn, MI Officials Sued to End Their Imposition of Sharia Law

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The Thomas More Law Center announced today that the City of Dearborn, its Mayor, John B. O’Reilly, its Chief of Police, Ronald Haddad, 17 City police officers, and two executives of the American Arab Chamber of Commerce were named as defendants in a ninety-six page federal civil rights lawsuit filed in the Federal District Court […]

U.S. Supreme Court Asked to Review San Francisco’s Anti-Catholic Resolution
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U.S. Supreme Court Asked to Review San Francisco’s Anti-Catholic Resolution

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The Thomas More Law Center, [Tuesday] afternoon, filed a petition with the U.S. Supreme Court, asking that it reverse a Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decision which upheld San Francisco’s virulent anti-Catholic resolution.  San Francisco’s resolution, adopted March 21, 2006, refers to the Vatican as a “foreign country” meddling in the affairs of the City and […]