Thomas More Society – California Globe

California AG Puts Pro-Life Speech on Trial, Seeking More Than $20 Million in Fines

June 24, 2026 6:00 amJune 24, 2026 2:29 pm

California Attorney General Rob Bonta is pursuing legal action against pro-life organizations promoting Abortion Pill Reversal (APR). In September 2023, Bonta sued Heartbeat International, a national network operating the Abortion Pill Rescue Network, and RealOptions Obria, a chain of five...

9th Circuit Blocks State Officials from Enforcing California’s Gender Secrecy Law

June 19, 2026 2:27 pmJune 19, 2026 3:32 pm

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has blocked California officials from enforcing parts of California’s Gender Secrecy Law that limit schools from disclosing a student’s gender identity information to parents. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued...

Federal Court Orders California to Pay $4.5 Million in Attorneys’ Fees in Landmark Parental Rights Win

April 1, 2026 6:00 amApril 1, 2026 11:44 am

A federal court yesterday ordered the State of California to pay $4.52 million in attorneys’ fees to Thomas More Society attorneys in Mirabelli v. Bonta, the landmark parental rights case challenging California’s policy of concealing children’s gender transitions from their...

Federal Judge Delivers Crushing Defeat to California’s Radical Gender Secrecy Agenda, Permanently Restores Parental Rights

December 23, 2025 12:19 pmDecember 23, 2025 4:35 pm

In a devastating blow to California’s failed, far-left education establishment, U.S. District Judge Roger T. Benitez has ruled that the state’s insidious “Parental Exclusion Policies” found in AB 1955—designed to force schools to hide children’s gender transitions from their own...

Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Orders Calvary Chapel San Jose To Pay $1.2 Million

April 14, 2023 2:38 pmApril 14, 2023 2:41 pm

In a ruling handed down on Thursday, Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Evette D. Pennypacker ruled that the Calvary Chapel San Jose church is to pay $1.2 million in fines stemming from breaking county COVID-19 restrictions during the pandemic. During...

Lawsuit Forces California Department of Education to Remove Aztec God Chants From Ethnic Studies Curriculum

January 18, 2022 2:27 amApril 3, 2022 3:09 pm

The California Department of Education (CDE) agreed to drop two religious chants from its ethnic studies model curriculum (ESMC) during the weekend after parents, the Californians for Equal Rights Foundation, and the Thomas More Society threatened to sue them over...

United States Supreme Court to Consider Intervening in San Diego Schools’ COVID Vaccination Mandate

December 11, 2021 8:12 amDecember 12, 2021 2:26 pm

The family of a Scripps Ranch High School student athlete is suing the San Diego Unified School District for religious discrimination over the districts’ strictest-in-the-nation COVID-19 vaccine mandate. Thomas More Society attorneys filed suit against the school district and its...