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The Law of Life Project counselled Drs. James L. Sherley and Theresa Deisher against NIH Guidelines that opened federal funding competition to human embryonic stem-cell research, arguing a conflict with Dickey-Wicker.
The case moved through the D.C. courts and reached the Supreme Court as No. 12-454. Certiorari was denied in January 2013. The record still trains advocates on standing, statutory fidelity, and research ethics.
Standing: intensified competition for fixed NIH funds is concrete injury.
Claim: Guidelines conflict with Dickey-Wicker limits on embryo-destructive research funding.
Legacy: framework training on character, accountability, and institutional standards.
Defending Oklahoma informed-consent ultrasound law
After Oklahoma enacted H.B. 2780, requiring a pre-abortion ultrasound with display and description, Nova Health Systems sued. ADF and Jubilee Campaign's Law of Life Project moved to intervene for American Victims of Abortion.
The dispute later reached the Supreme Court as Pruitt v. Nova Health Systems (No. 12-1170). The intervention remains a model for supporting informed-consent statutes and pregnancy-center allies.
Trial court: Oklahoma County CV-2010-533.
Policy stake: medically relevant information before irreversible procedures.
Training use: model petitions and clinic defense modules for members.
Pregnancy resource centers have faced compelled speech and claims of false risk counseling. The Law of Life Project filed amicus briefs explaining why centers may share peer-reviewed abortion-risk information without a government script.
Baltimore and related matters show cities leaning on activist investigations while medical association amici showed that center disclosures track science and often mirror provider disclosure laws.
First Amendment: voluntary helpers should not carry the state's preferred message.
Informed consent: risk information belongs with the patient before a decision.
Field use: shared briefs and training for PRC legal readiness.
/legal-background was the public shelf for filings reporters needed without digging PACER alone. Coverage of Sherley, Nova, and PRC defense pointed readers here for dockets, PDFs, and counsel context.
Samuel B. Casey, Managing Director and General Counsel, was the Project's public voice: quoted in trade and national outlets, and present as counsel or amicus strategist across these matters.
Use this tab for biography, interviews, and secondary sources.
Pair press clips with primary filings in the Sherley and Nova tabs.
Membership expands model petitions beyond this public archive.
Counsel for Drs. Sherley and Deisher challenged NIH Guidelines opening federal funding competition to human embryonic stem-cell research, framing Dickey-Wicker fidelity and competition injury.
Path: D.D.C. to D.C. Cir. to SCOTUS No. 12-454 (cert. denied Jan. 7, 2013).
Use: training authority on research ethics and advocacy discipline.
Oklahoma ultrasound informed-consent statute required display and description before abortion. Law of Life Project counsel joined ADF to intervene for women harmed by abortion.
Updated amicus for medical associations supporting pregnancy centers sharing scientifically grounded risk information against city reliance on activist reports.
Managing Director and General Counsel. Prior roles: Christian Legal Society CEO, Advocates International counsel, founding ADF board chair. His filings and interviews connect this archive.
