SYRACUSE, N.Y. – Faith-based adoption provider New Hope Family Services secured a second victory against New York state officials, after securing a favorable settlement and a payment of $250,000 for attorneys’ fees in a related lawsuit settled last month. In settlement of the second lawsuit—which challenged an attempt by a different New York state agency to punish New Hope for adhering to its religious convictions—New York officials agreed to pay an additional $25,000 in attorneys’ fees and costs, and broadly confirmed New Hope’s right to continue its critical work of placing infants in permanent homes without government harassment.
On behalf of
the Syracuse-based adoption agency, Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys filed
New Hope Family Services v. James in September 2021 after the New York Division
of Human Rights threatened to investigate and penalize the Christian nonprofit
because it places infants with couples consisting of a mother and father
committed to each other in marriage.
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