Celebrating This Year’s Victories
Chris Schandevel from Alliance Defending Freedom shares news of the big wins we’ve accomplished this year to help protect the conscience freedoms of CMDA members.
RESOURCES FOR THIS EPISODE:
- Give to CMDA
- Year-end Matching Gift
- Email CMDA Matters
- Join CMDA
- Alliance Defending Freedom
- Becket Law
- CMDA’s Advocacy Victories
- New Mexico Case
- California Case
- Freedom2Care
- CMDA Ethics Statements
- The Convergence: Critical Conversations on Mental Health
Meet Our Guest
Chris Schandevel serves as senior counsel on Alliance Defending Freedom’s Appellate Advocacy Team. In that role, he represents ADF clients of all stripes at the appellate level, preserving lower-court victories and seeking to overturn unjust results. Among other clients, he has represented a faith-based pregnancy resource center and adoption agency, a Christian photographer, a college student and conservative student group, a former Planned Parenthood clinic manager, female track-and-field athletes and a high-school French teacher. Schandevel also was on the team of attorneys who successfully represented the Thomas More Law Center in the U.S. Supreme Court. And he regularly represents clients in friend-of-the-court briefs filed in state and federal appellate courts and in the U.S. Supreme Court. Chris recently also argued Kligler v. Healy at the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, ultimately succeeding in upholding the state’s protections against assisted suicide.