Religion Clause

29/07/2024

Yet another court has enjoined the Department of Education from enforcing its new Title IX rules that interpret Title IX's ban on s*x discr...

29/07/2024

From SSRN: Dov Fischer, Development of Accounting and the Jewish Calendar, a Comparative Study (Presentation Slides) , (June 20, 2024). Jus...

28/07/2024

In Syring v. Archdiocese of Omaha , (NE Sup. Ct., July 26, 2024), the Nebraska Supreme Court upheld the dismissal of defamation, inflictio...

26/07/2024

In Jewish Community Council of Montreal v. Canada (Attorney General) , (CA Fed. Ct., July 24, 2024), a judge of the Canadian Federal Court...

26/07/2024

In State of Washington v. U.S. Food and Drug Administration , (9th Cir., July 24, 2024), the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals refused to p...

25/07/2024

In Cowles v. Thurston , (AR Sup. Ct., July 23, 2024), the Arkansas Supreme Court ordered the state Secretary of State to perform an initia...

25/07/2024

In Hyman v. Rosenbaum Yeshiva of North Jersey , (NJ Sup. Ct., July 24, 2024), an equally divided New Jersey Supreme Court decision result...

24/07/2024

The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York announced last week the federal indictment of the leader of an international...

24/07/2024

Yesterday, an Indiana federal district court sentenced 67-year-old Andrezj Boryga to 24 months in prison followed by two years of supervised...

23/07/2024

Last Friday, the Center for Religion, Culture and Democracy announced release of its 2024 report ( full text ) on Religious Liberty in the...

22/07/2024

In Church of the Rock, Inc. v. Town of Castle Rock, Colorado , (D CO, July 19, 2024), a Colorado federal district court granted a church a ...

22/07/2024

From SSRN: Perry Dane, Some Thoughts on the Architecture of Freedom of Religion and Freedom of Speech , (Notre Dame Law Review Reflection (...

21/07/2024

In Gordon College v. U.S. Small Business Administration , (D DC, July 18, 2024), the D.C. federal district court dismissed claims by a rel...

19/07/2024

19/07/2024

A school district and parents of school-age children filed suit this week in a California federal district court challenging California's re...

19/07/2024

Moscow Times and Vyorstka reported yesterday that a Russian District Court in Moscow has banned the offering on four websites in Russia of...

19/07/2024

A national furniture retailer, Hank's Furniture, has settled a Title VII religious discrimination lawsuit brought against it by the EEOC. U...

18/07/2024

In Behrend v. San Francisco Zen Center, Inc. , (9th Cir., July 17, 2024), the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the dismissal under...

17/07/2024

Last week, a petition for certiorari ( full text ) was filed in the U.S. Supreme Court seeking review in Little v. Hecox, (Docket No. 24-3...

17/07/2024

In In re Roman Catholic Diocese of Rockville Centre, New York , (SD NY, July 15, 2024), a New York federal district court affirmed a bankru...

17/07/2024

In Episcopal Diocese of Southern Virginia v. Marshall , (VA App., July 16, 2024), a Virginia state appellate court held that a defamation p...

15/07/2024

In Emilee Carpenter, LLC, dba Emilee Carpenter Photography v. James , (2d Cir., July 12, 2024), the U.S. 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals rever...

15/07/2024

From SSRN: Dennis J. Wieboldt III, Christian History Meets Constitutional History: John Courtney Murray's Augustinian Political Theology of ...

14/07/2024

In L.F. v. M.A. , (NY Cnty. Sup. Ct., July 9, 2024), a New York state trial court, in a divorce action, held that a ceremony at a Coptic Ort...

14/07/2024

Suit was filed last week in a Michigan federal district court challenging the constitutionality of Michigan statutes that ban counselors fro...

12/07/2024

In Fellowship of Christian Athletes v. District of Columbia , (D DC, July 11, 2024), a D.C. federal district court issued a preliminary in...

12/07/2024

In Mohd v. State of Telangana , (India Sup. Ct., July 10, 2024), a 2-judge panel of India's Supreme Court held that a Muslim woman who has ...

12/07/2024

In Chestnut v. United Methodist Church , (NY App. Div., July 10, 2024), a New York state appellate court held that the "United Methodist Ch...

11/07/2024

Yesterday, Arkansas Secretary of State John Thurston rejected petitions to place a proposed state constitutional amendment on the November b...

11/07/2024

Suit was filed yesterday in a Missouri federal district court by six states and a national organization of pediatricians challenging new rul...