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ACLJ Secures Federal Court Jury Verdict for Teen Challenge in TN -- Nearly $1 Million Damage Award & Finding of Religious Discrimination

Published in Physician Law Weekly, September 24th, 2008

The American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), focusing on constitutional law, said it has secured a federal court jury verdict in favor of its client, Teen Challenge, and a jury award of nearly one million dollars for Teen Challenge and a finding that the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County violated the rights of the religiously-based organization. The ACLJ filed a federal lawsuit last year after government officials enacted an ordinance targeting Teen Challenge and reversing an earlier approval giving Teen Challenge the go-ahead to use 13 acres of land it purchased to expand its Christian-based ministry for a residential treatment facility for young people suffering...

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