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11 Apr 2016, 6:20 am by Eugene Volokh
Mormon church disciplinary councils, I’ve recently learned, generally abstain from considering matters that are being considered by a secular civil or criminal court. [read post]
25 Feb 2016, 8:07 pm
The Wailing Wall in Jerusalem allows men and women to worship only separately; non-Muslims cannot visit the holy sites of Mecca and Medina; women are completely barred from entry into the sanctum sanctorum of the Haji Ali Dargah; Mormon churches often deny entry to homosexual couples. [read post]
12 Feb 2016, 2:00 pm by Legal Skills Prof
From the Salt Lake Tribune: Law school accreditors are investigating Brigham Young University amid allegations that the LDS Church-owned institution's policies violate nondiscrimination standards by expelling students who live in same-sex relationships or leave the Mormon faith. [read post]
26 Jan 2016, 4:10 am by Howard Friedman
 The group charges the law school with continued enforcement of provisions in its Honor Code that results in expelling Mormon students who leave the LDS Church while they are enrolled in law school. [read post]
23 Jan 2016, 6:00 am by Doug Cornelius
He spends a long time looking at the Mormon church. [read post]
3 Jan 2016, 8:00 am by Howard Friedman
LEXIS 172704 (ED MO, Dec. 29, 2015), a Missouri federal district court dismissed a Mormon inmate's complaint that prison authorities classify the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as a General Christian group, instead of giving it a separate category.In Hoskins v. [read post]
14 Dec 2015, 2:45 pm by John Bursch
In this sense, the plaintiffs are akin to Muslims or Mormons who refuse to hire a caterer that will serve complimentary alcohol to their guests at a social function. [read post]
16 Nov 2015, 6:00 am by Family Law
From NBC News: Hundreds of people are formally renouncing their membership in the Mormon church in protest over a new policy that punishes same-sex couples and their children, an attorney assisting them said. [read post]
14 Nov 2015, 6:00 am by Family Law
From The New York Times: Children of same-sex couples will not be able to join the Mormon Church until they turn 18 — and only if they move out of their parents’ homes, disavow all same-sex relationships and receive approval... [read post]
13 Nov 2015, 11:44 am by Tom Smith
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is facing a growing backlash from Mormons upset about a new policy that bars children of same-sex parents from baby-naming ceremonies and baptisms, and declares members in gay marriages to be apostates subject to excommunication. [read post]
6 Nov 2015, 11:51 am by Brian Leiter
...is clearly going to lead to new legal challenges that will pit claims of religious liberty against anti-discrimination norms. [read post]
4 Oct 2015, 9:09 pm by David Friedman
In truth, the Qur’an only permits fighting in self-defense, or to protect  “churches, synagogues, temples, and mosques” from attack. [read post]
1 Oct 2015, 11:03 am by Tom Smith
The rest of the world got another strange and fascinating glimpse into the secret lives of Warren Jeffs' sect of polygamist Mormons this week. [read post]
9 Sep 2015, 8:08 am by Martha Ertman
Polygamy remains a feature of splinter sects of the Mormon Church. [read post]
2 Sep 2015, 2:47 pm by Brian Clarke
  No government in this country can require a church to marry anyone against its faith. [read post]
24 Aug 2015, 4:00 am by Howard Friedman
Garfield, And the Wall Comes Tumbling Down: How the Supreme Court Is Striking the Wrong Balance between Majority and Minority Rights in Church and State Cases, Arkansas Law Review, Forthcoming.Mark Rahdert, Exceptionalism Unbound: Appraising American Resistance to Foreign Law, (Catholic University Law Review, (Forthcoming)).Tessa McKeown, Hate Speech and Holocaust Denial: The Prohibition of False Historical Discourse in Modern Society, (2014).Kit Kinports, The Supreme Court's Quiet… [read post]