It was a five-star evening with great friends, profound speech, wine, music, laughter and fine food at the Bellevue Club for our seventh LLDF Banquet on Saturday, November 11. Before getting started with the dinner itself, our excellent pianist, Anika Zimmer, played, while guests were greeted and hors d’oeuvres passed. Meanwhile, our illustrious speaker, Wesley …
Mr. Eldridge, please tell me about your educational background and that of your partners. Eldridge: I am a graduate of Trinity Law School in Santa Ana. I also received a masters degree from Simon Greenleaf University in International Human Rights. I was able to study at the International Institute of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France …
[Following the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision last June in Hill v. Colorado, 120 S.Ct. 2480 (2000) upholding a Colorado statute forbidding speakers from approaching people without their consent, the Massachusetts Legislature passed a law which was similar in many respects, but with two crucial differences. First, the Massachusetts law applied only in the vicinity of …
Katie Short In the last issue of Lifeline, we reported on SB 1945, a bill in the California legislature the sole purpose of which was to demonize pro-lifers by making “antiabortion crimes” the legal equivalent of “hate crimes.” That strategy backfired when LLDF Executive Director Dana Cody and other concerned pro-lifers presented reams of evidence …
Anne Starr Life Legal Defense Foundation’s executive director believes in the First Amendment right to free speech, even when that speech is disturbing. In that cause, Dana Cody defends Life Legal Defense Foundation clients who want to tell high school students facts about abortion that they will not hear in the mass media, in class, …
Wesley J Smith It was every liberal’s dream of diverse, grass-roots political activism: more than a hundred people demonstrating angrily in front of the California state capitol against pending legislation that threatened people who are poor, who are disabled, and who are vulnerable. Disability-rights activists in wheel-chairs marched in solidarity with white medical professionals, alongside …
Please tell me about your education and legal background; I gather it’s pretty exotic. Exotic may be the right word. I’m a Vietnam veteran; I went to Vietnam right out of high school. I went to college later, at Penn State, and went on to law school at Ohio Northern, then clerked for a judge …
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