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ADL Urges NY Court to Reinstate 2009 Hate Crime Conviction

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has joined a friend of court brief  urging the New York Court of Appeals to reinstate the 2009 conviction of Dwight DeLee, who was found guilty of first-degree manslaughter as a hate crime in the 2008 shooting death in Syracuse, New York of Lateisha Green, a transgender woman. DeLee was convicted of first-degree manslaughter as a hate

ADL: Government Sponsored Religious Favoritism “Simply Unacceptable”

 The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has joined a friend of court brief to the United States Supreme Court asserting that religious invocations at town council meetings are “simply unacceptable” and violate the Establishment Clause to the First Amendment. In this important new church-state case, Greece v. Galloway, the court will revisit the constitutionality of legislative prayer for the first time in

ADL Condemns Assault of Sikh Professor

 September 23, 2013 The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today condemned an apparent hate crime against Dr. Prabhjot Singh, a professor at Columbia University. The attack occurred near 110th Street and Lenox Avenue on Saturday evening where a small mob of more than a dozen people reportedly beat the professor while making references to Osama Bin Laden and terrorism. “We are shocked