Rose Grimm Could you tell me about your legal education and background? I went to law school at the University of Denver. I went to law as a second career, after being a city planner and re-development director for eight years.My wife and I both felt that God was calling me to go into law. …
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With spirit and enthusiasm, the keynote speaker at Life Legal’s Fall banquet (Nov. 11, 1999, Oakland, Calif.) used common sense, philosophy and theology to encourage his audience to keep fighting for the right to life. The Rev. Frank Pavone, national director of Priests for Life, exhorted the attentive audience of more than 200 people to …
Anne Starr “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” – The First Amendment, US Constitution In a …
Wesley J Smith Alas, poor Mary. She’s the conjoined twin in England, united at the chest with her stronger sister Jodie, and she’s been called a parasite, a tumor, a blood-sucker: someone whose “primitive” brain makes her life unworthy of protecting. And all that by two British courts, which wave wrenched away from her parents …
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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 …
