In April 1999, AU and the Kansas ACLU filed suit in federal court on behalf of several Manhattan residents challenging the placement of a Ten Commandments monument in front of the City Hall building. After the suit was filed, the City Commission voted to settle the lawsuit by removing the monument and providing the plaintiffs with an attorneys’ fee award, thereby concluding the case.
BREAKING NEWS
Americans United & the National Women’s Law Center file suit to challenge Missouri’s abortion bans.
Abortion bans violate the separation of church and state. Americans United and the National Women’s Law Center—the leading experts in religious freedom and gender justice—have joined forces with thirteen clergy from six faith traditions to challenge Missouri’s abortion bans as unconstitutionally imposing one narrow religious doctrine on everyone.
