What I love most about working for Advocates is the opportunity to defend our First Amendment right to spread the gospel of Jesus Christ. Those are the cases I am most passionate about.
The past few months have been challenging for me because we have been inundated with calls, emails, and requests for legal help about the COVID-19 shots
Advocates has been heavily engaged in civil rights battles since the early days of the pandemic. While the government has lifted some restrictions on personal liberty, the next wave of legal challenges across the country will be in the vaccine mandates arena.
We have been receiving hundreds of inquiries about COVID-19 vaccines. While adult vaccine mandates are unprecedented, and the legality has yet to be answered in court, there are serious constitutional issues implicated. Below is an outline of the current state of the law and a few cases Advocates has taken on to help set sound legal precedent in this new area of law.
On July 24, 2020, Mr. Green, hosted an outdoor community worship and baptism service. The religious service was intended to be conducted at a time and place where people could worship God, outdoor on the beach, and receive baptisms in the Pacific Ocean.
Later that same day, the Huntington Beach Police Department issued Mr. Green a citation for hosting the event. The citation amounted to a misdemeanor and ordered Mr. Green to appear before the Court for violating the Huntington Beach Municipal Code (HBMC) by holding a “large scale event.”
For parents unable to enroll their children into private school or unavailable to home-school their kids, public schools need to reopen. But, before teachers’ unions will even consider allowing their teachers to come back into the classroom, these powerful, self-serving public unions demanded Congress pass the $1.9 trillion bill which includes $130 billion for schools.
