General Conference of Seventh-Day Adventists, Amicus Curiae
Gene C. Schaerr, Counsel of Record
The Seventh-Day Adventists is a religious sect that focuses on global Christian proselytizing, including through door-to-door visits. The General Conference represents 59,000 congregations with more than 18 million members. Gene C. Schaerr has a private law practice in Washington, D.C. The following is excerpted from the Amicus Curiae Brief for Petitioners as submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court on September 22, 2014. Unfortunately, there is nothing in the logic or language of the Ninth Circuit’s decision — especially its misguided analysis of content-neutrality — to keep its doctrinal contagion from spreading beyond the narrow realm of sign ordinances. Thus, the…
