(DOWNLOAD) "Court Asked to Stop Family Law Section's Gay Adoption Amicus: Bar Says Allowing a Section to File an Amicus Does Not Constitute a Formal Endorsement of the Position" by Florida Bar News # eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Court Asked to Stop Family Law Section's Gay Adoption Amicus: Bar Says Allowing a Section to File an Amicus Does Not Constitute a Formal Endorsement of the Position
- Author : Florida Bar News
- Release Date : January 15, 2009
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 69 KB
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Saying it must defend lawyers' First Amendment rights, Liberty Counsel has filed a petition with the Florida Supreme Court to stop The Florida Bar's Family Law Section from filing an amicus brief in support of a trial judge's ruling declaring Florida's gay adoption ban unconstitutional. "The First Amendment demands that The Florida Bar remain neutral on matters that do not relate to the regulation of attorneys. The Bar cannot force attorneys and judges to pay mandatory dues and then position itself as an adversary against them on controversial ideological issues. Florida attorneys want peace, not war, but The Florida Bar has given us no choice, and we will vigorously defend our liberty under the First Amendment," Mathew Staver, founder of Liberty Counsel and dean of Liberty University School of Law in Lynchburg, Virginia, said in a prepared statement.