Thomas More Society – California Globe

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...

San Diego Student Wins Religious Rights Injunction for District’s COVID Vaccine Mandate

November 29, 2021 11:43 amDecember 8, 2021 3:46 pm

A San Diego Unified School District public school student has won a religious rights case in an Appeal at the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals for an Injunction over the school districts’ COVID-19 vaccine mandate. Last week, Thomas More Society...

Grace Community Church Wins Against Gov. Newsom’s Attacks on Religious Liberty

September 2, 2021 4:29 pmSeptember 2, 2021 4:30 pm

“The Cross Culture Christian Center in Lodi and Cornerstone Church in Fresno just won large lawsuits against Gov. Gavin Newsom, whose statewide COVID shutdown orders included churches,” the Globe reported Wednesday. And they aren’t the only two big wins for religious freedom....