Important legal successes include:

• Winning the first federal lawsuit challenging direct funding by the government of a faith-based agency
• Overturning a state Good Friday holiday, Good Friday plaintiffs included Foundation staff and state employees. 
• Winning a lawsuit barring direct taxpayer subsidy of religious schools
• Removing Ten Commandments monuments and crosses from public land
• Halting the Post Office from issuing religious cancellations
• Ending 51 years of illegal bible instruction in public schools
• Winning the first court order to a U.S. Cabinet revoking federal funds to a pervasively sectarian agency
• Halting federal funds to a bible school offering no academic classes
• Ending "parish nursing" faith/health entanglements at two state universities
• Halting a government chaplaincy to minister to state workers

Foundation complaints have:

• Halted prayer at public schools, institutions, and public financing of nativity pageants and Easter services
• Stopped direct subsidy to religious schools
• Stopped Job Corps trainees from being assigned to work on a Catholic shrine
• Ended a 122-year abuse of commencement prayers at a Top Ten University
• Declared unconstitutional the creation of a state post to “assist clergy”

Other court victories include:

• Winning a legal challenge ending 51 years of illegal bible instruction in rhea county (dayton, tennessee) schools
• Declaring unconstitutional the creation of a state post to "assist clergy" to save marriages
• Stopping school subsidy of child evangelism
• Removing a nativity scene from the entrance of a city hall
• Forcing a mayor to suspend sponsorship of a day of prayer

To read about these lawsuits, victories and ongoing litigation, as well as FFRF's substantial accomplishments ending state/church violations without going to court, see the links at right, "In This Section."