Editing Intelligent design movement (section)

=== ''Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District'' (2005) ===
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In the movement's sole major case, ''Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District'', it was represented by the [[Thomas More Law Center]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.salon.com/2005/10/20/dover_trial/ |title=Intelligent designer |last=Slack |first=Gordy |date=October 20, 2005 |website=Salon |location=San Francisco, CA |publisher=Salon Media Group |access-date=2014-05-31}}</ref> which had been seeking a test-case on the issue for at least five years.<ref>{{cite news |last=Goodstein |first=Laurie |date=November 4, 2005 |title=In Intelligent Design Case, a Cause in Search of a Lawsuit |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/04/science/sciencespecial2/04design.html?_r=1&oref=slogin |newspaper=The New York Times |quote=For years, a lawyer for the Thomas More Law Center in Michigan visited school boards around the country searching for one willing to challenge evolution by teaching intelligent design, and to face a risky, high-profile trial. |access-date=2014-05-31}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Humburg |first1=Burt |last2=Brayton |first2=Ed |date=December 20, 2005 |title=Kitzmiller et al versus Dover Area School District |url=http://www.skeptic.com/eskeptic/05-12-20/ |journal=[[Skeptic (U.S. magazine)|eSkeptic]] |type=Newsletter |publisher=[[The Skeptics Society]] |issn=1556-5696 |quote=TMLC representatives traveled the country from at least early 2000, encouraging school boards to teach ID in science classrooms. From Virginia to Minnesota, TMLC recommended the textbook Of Pandas and People (Pandas) as a supplement to regular biology textbooks, promising to defend the schools free of charge when the ACLU filed the inevitable lawsuit. Finally, in summer 2004, they found a willing school board in Dover, Pennsylvania, a board known to have been searching for a way to get creationism inserted into its science classrooms for years. |access-date=2014-05-31}}</ref> However conflicting agendas resulted in the withdrawal of a number of Discovery Institute Fellows as expert witnesses, at the request of DI director Bruce Chapman,<ref>{{cite news |last=Postman |first=David |date=April 26, 2006 |title=Seattle's Discovery Institute scrambling to rebound after intelligent-design ruling |url=http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2002953668_id26m.html |newspaper=[[The Seattle Times]] |location=Seattle, WA |publisher=[[The Seattle Times Company]] |access-date=2014-05-31}}</ref> and mutual recriminations with the DI after the case was lost.<ref name="InstituteandThomasSquabble">{{cite web |url=http://ncse.com/news/2005/10/discovery-institute-thomas-more-law-center-squabble-aei-foru-00704 |title=Discovery Institute and Thomas More Law Center Squabble in AEI Forum |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=October 23, 2005 |website=National Center for Science Education |location=Berkeley, CA |type=Blog |access-date=2014-05-31}}</ref> The [[Alliance Defending Freedom|Alliance Defense Fund]] briefly represented the Foundation for Thought and Ethics in its unsuccessful motion to intervene in this case,<ref>{{cite press release |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=ADF attorneys seek to supply missing link in intelligent design curriculum case |url=http://www.alliancedefensefund.org/news/story.aspx?cid=3440 |location=Harrisburg, PA |publisher=[[Alliance Defending Freedom|Alliance Defense Fund]] |date=May 24, 2005 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070616043046/http://www.alliancedefensefund.org/news/story.aspx?cid=3440 |archive-date=2007-06-16 |access-date=2014-05-31}}</ref> and prepared ''[[amicus curiae]]'' briefs on behalf of the DI and FTE in it.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www2.ncseweb.org/kvd/highlights/2005-12-07_Ps_response_to_FTE-DI_amicus_OCR.pdf |title=Plaintiffs' Response to Amicus Briefs |date=December 7, 2005 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071014045828/http://www2.ncseweb.org/kvd/highlights/2005-12-07_Ps_response_to_FTE-DI_amicus_OCR.pdf |archive-date=2007-10-14 |access-date=2014-05-31}} [[s:Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District|''Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District'']]</ref> It has also made ''amicus curiae'' submissions<ref>{{cite web |url=http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/6/12006d.asp |title=Circuit Court Sends 'Textbook Sticker' Case Back to Lower Court |last=Brown |first=Jim |date=June 1, 2006 |website=AgapePress |publisher=[[American Family Association]] |location=Tupelo, MS |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060822034556/http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/6/12006d.asp |archive-date=2006-08-22 |access-date=2014-05-31}}</ref> and offered to pay for litigation,<ref>{{cite news |last=Moore |first=Michael |date=February 29, 2004 |title=Darby debate: Focus on religion a central ADF tenet |url=http://missoulian.com/news/local/darby-debate-focus-on-religion-a-central-adf-tenet/article_9a55d524-2c82-57bf-8063-d4092e4d28c3.html |newspaper=[[Missoulian]] |location=Davenport, IA |publisher=[[Lee Enterprises]] |access-date=2014-05-31}}</ref> in other (actual and potential) creationism-related cases. On a far smaller scale, [[Larry Caldwell]] and his wife operate under the name Quality Science Education for All, and have made a number of lawsuits in furtherance of the movement's anti-evolution agenda. In 2005 they brought at least three separate lawsuits to further the intelligent design movement's agenda. One was later abandoned, two were dismissed.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pandasthumb.org/archives/2005/09/nuisance-lawsui.html |title=Nuisance Lawsuit Against Scott and NCSE Withdrawn |last=Elsberry |first=Wesley R. |author-link=Wesley R. Elsberry |date=September 14, 2005 |website=[[The Panda's Thumb (blog)|The Panda's Thumb]] |publisher=TalkOrigins Archive Foundation, Inc. |location=Houston, TX |type=Blog |access-date=2014-05-31}}</ref><ref>{{cite court |litigants=Caldwell v. Roseville Joint Union High School District |vol=05 |reporter=cv |opinion=061|date=September 7, 2007 |url=http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/USCOURTS-caed-2_05-cv-00061/pdf/USCOURTS-caed-2_05-cv-00061-9.pdf}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2006/03/15_evolution.shtml |title=Court dismisses lawsuit targeting evolution website |last=Sanders |first=Robert |date=March 15, 2006 |website=UC Berkeley News |publisher=[[Regents of the University of California]] |location=Berkeley, CA |access-date=2014-05-31}}</ref>