Summary
The city of Anchorage is misapplying a city ordinance against a faith-based women’s shelter after it referred an inebriated and injured man to a hospital and paid for his taxi ride there instead of allowing him to share sleeping quarters with abused and homeless women.
Case timeline
- November 2018: ADF attorneys filed a lawsuit on behalf of the Downtown Hope Center in the U.S. District Court for the District of Alaska.
- January 2019: Oral arguments for the case took place.
- August 2019: The district court issued an order stopping Anchorage officials from misapplying the city ordinance against the Hope Center.
- September 2019: Anchorage officials dropped their complaint against the Hope Center.
Commentary
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Sherrie Laurie
March 11, 2021
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Kate Anderson
October 03, 2019
The shelter I run was nearly forced to let males identifying as females sleep next to abused women
Sherrie Laurie
October 03, 2019
Anchorage threatens womenâs shelter for serving women – Anchorage Daily News
Kate Anderson
December 07, 2018