Welcome to the TMS Weekly Dispatch for December 8, 2025—with the latest news and updates from the front line, to keep you in-the-know on all things Thomas More Society. If you missed last week’s edition, you can read it here.  

Here’s the latest from the past week:

VICTORY FOR FREE SPEECH IN FLORIDA: On December 4, Thomas More Society secured a major victory for free speech and pro-life advocacy after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit ruled that the City of Clearwater’s “vehicular safety zone” ordinance violates the First Amendment.

In a decisive opinion, the Atlanta-based appellate court vacated the district court's denial of a preliminary injunction, held that the lower court “abused its discretion,” and remanded with instructions to enter the injunction protecting pro-life sidewalk counselors with Florida Preborn Rescue, and four pro-life sidewalk counselors—Allen Tuthill, Antoniette Migliore, Scott Mahurin, and Judith Goldsberry.

The challenged ordinance created what was effectively a 38-foot buffer zone outside Bread and Roses Woman’s Health Center, an abortion facility, prohibiting pedestrians from entering the clinic’s driveway or the sidewalk within five feet on either side during business hours. Applying the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in McCullen v. Coakley, the Court found the ordinance “burdens substantially more speech than necessary” and seriously restricts the counselors’ ability to distribute literature to patients—particularly those arriving by car, who constitute the majority.

The court emphasized that “uncontradicted testimony” showed the buffer zone has “effectively stifled” their ability to offer leaflets and communicate with abortion-bound women. Most significantly, the Eleventh Circuit held that Clearwater “failed to adequately consider alternative measures,” noting that Florida already has an anti-obstruction statute that could address safety concerns without banning speech.  

The city’s argument that existing law would be “more tedious and less efficient” was precisely what the Supreme Court has historically rejected: “The prime objective of the First Amendment is not efficiency.” Now, Florida Preborn and their counselors are free to resume sharing their pro-life message and life-affirming resources with abortion-minded women entering Clearwater’s abortion facility.

“These anti-speech zones rob women of critical information about options other than abortion," reacted TMS Senior Counsel Tyler Brooks, who argued the appeal. “Thomas More Society will continue fighting to dismantle them nationwide. We won’t let the abortion industry have the last word.”

Read the Opinion of the Court here.  

SUPPLEMENTAL DOCUMENTS AND REVELATIONS FILED IN CALIFORNIA GENDER SECRECY CASE: As we await a decision in the landmark parental rights battle, Mirabelli v. Olson, Thomas More Society filed a Supplemental Declaration regarding the issue of sanction before the Court, detailing just how egregious the California Department of Education's attempts to promote radical gender ideology—and mislead the Court—truly are.

The Declaration describes shocking evidence of a “repeated, serious and inexcusable attempt to mislead the Court,” exposing close collaboration with 19 LGBTQ+ advocacy organizations such as the ACLU to push the PRISM training, which encourages teachers to hide children’s gender transitions from their parents. Previously, State Defendants tried to argue that Mirabelli was moot because they had withdrawn the objectionable FAQ page promoting Parental Exclusion Policies—but it was soon discovered that this content had merely been moved to the password-protected PRISM training that all California teachers are required to take.

When challenged, the State Defendants hastily took down the PRISM website wholesale and claimed the inclusion of Parental Exclusion Policies was "inadvertent." But our legal team's thorough review of the training after it came back online reveals the truth: the PRISM training continues to link to ACLU and “Queeriosity” documents that explicitly instruct teachers to keep students’ gender identities confidential from parents. Even more troubling, the training teaches that calling a transgender student’s parents about their child’s identity is “a violation of student privacy”—the wrong answer on a required quiz.

These revelations underscore the critical importance of Mirabelli's challenge to Parental Exclusion Policies and demonstrate why sanctions are warranted against State Defendants who sought to have the case dismissed while continuing to violate the constitutional rights of parents and teachers.

Read the full Supplemental Declaration, filed by TMS attorneys, here.