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29 Dec 2022, 5:58 am by Joe Patrice
[Reuters] * Another law school student group wants the legal right to discriminate against LGBTQ+ people citing its deeply held religious convictions as... a loose confederation of "Judeo-Christian" members calling themselves the Free Exercise Coalition. [read post]
24 Jun 2016, 2:04 pm by Howard Friedman
They do not claim to be aggrieved by the school laws.The dissent by Justice Green, joined by Justices Johnson and Brown argued:[T]he Court today ignores our rules of statutory construction and holds that homeschool parents can avoid that exhaustion requirement simply by cloaking their school-law claims in constitutional language.According to a Christian Science Monitor report on the decision, the parents stopped teaching their children a standard curriculum because they believed they would… [read post]
20 Jan 2021, 10:30 pm by Mitra Sharafi
Here's the abstract: This article explores how some enslaved Black Africans litigated for their freedom in Spanish royal courts in the sixteenth century on the basis that—as Christians—they had been unjustly enslaved in Africa. [read post]
27 May 2020, 4:10 am by Howard Friedman
  The complaint (full text) in Edgewater Christian Fellowship v. [read post]
16 May 2013, 6:52 pm by Howard Friedman
 As reported by RNS, the evangelical Christian family prefers home schooling largely for religious reasons. [read post]
22 Apr 2025, 4:00 am by Howard Friedman
Plaintiffs are "devout Christians and believe that God created man and woman as distinct, immutable genders. [read post]
11 Apr 2023, 2:38 pm by Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD
That lawsuit has now been settled and the statute has been amended,ADF claimed that the EOLOA impinged on constitutional rights of members of the National Christian Medical and Dental Associations by requiring providers to discuss all legal end-of-life options with their seriously ill and terminal patients and referring those patients who request MAID to prescribers or organizations who can help, even if they are not willing or able to provide the service on the basis of a religious… [read post]
26 Jun 2013, 3:30 am by Howard Friedman
 As reported by the Charleston (WV) Daily Mail, the latest lawsuit was brought in federal court this week by a West Virginia auto dealership and its born-again Christian owner who claim that some of the emergency contraceptives required to be covered are abortifacients. [read post]
Editor's Note: The following post comes to us from Jonathan Polkes, co-chair of the Securities Litigation Practice Group at Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, and is based on a Weil Gotshal alert by Christian Bartholomew and Brianna Benfield Ripa; the complete publication, including footnotes, is available here. [read post]
18 Nov 2014, 4:25 am by Howard Friedman
According to yesterday's Christian Post, the Florida school district is now proposing a rule change that will prohibit distribution of materials of a denominational, sectarian, religious, political or partisan nature. [read post]
19 Apr 2019, 11:23 am by Howard Friedman
  At issue was the refusal by the House Chaplain's Office to allow a former Christian who had become an atheist to serve as guest chaplain and deliver a secular invocation. [read post]
9 Jan 2017, 4:00 am by Howard Friedman
From SSRN:Neil James Foster, Protection of Religious Free Speech in Australia, (Australian Christian Lawyers Conference 2016 - Freedom of Religious Speech).Helge Årsheim, Secularist Suspicion and Legal Pluralism at the United Nations, (Religion and Human Rights 11(2): 166-188, 2016).Bernard Jackson, Law and Narrative in the Book of Ruth: A Syntagmatic Reading, (August 8, 2016).Helge Årsheim, Internal Affairs? [read post]
14 Nov 2019, 4:15 am by Howard Friedman
Department of Health and Human Services, (D SC, Nov. 13, 2019), a South Carolina federal district court dismissed for lack of standing a challenge to action by the federal government and the state that, through a waiver of anti-discrimination requirements, allowed a religiously affiliated foster care agency to place children only with evangelical Christians. [read post]
16 Jan 2015, 1:45 pm
" Warren Richey of The Christian Science Monitor reports that "Supreme Court agrees to rule on whether same-sex couples nationwide can marry. [read post]
9 Nov 2012, 7:21 am by Christian Stegmaier
Post by Practice Group Chair Christian StegmaierHospitality advocacy in South Carolina has taken on a new face with former Director of S.C. [read post]
26 Jul 2019, 4:05 am by Howard Friedman
She contends that the City of Colorado Springs is entangled financially with many Christian organizations and targeted Green Faith Ministry.... [read post]
12 Jun 2014, 4:05 am by Howard Friedman
In Canada, British Columbia-based Trinity Western, a Christian liberal arts university, has suffered a setback in its efforts to open a law school in 2016. [read post]
10 Jun 2020, 4:00 am by Howard Friedman
Once the complaining party establishes a coercive effect, the burden of proof shifts to the government to show the restrictions serve a compelling state interest and are the least restrictive means for achieving that interest....The record shows that DuSchene has regularly attended church in the past, and that he considers himself a Christian. [read post]
25 Aug 2015, 4:10 am by Howard Friedman
 According to Merinews, Christian, Buddhist, Jewish, Baha'i and other faith leaders have backed the Hindu group's request. [read post]
8 Dec 2016, 1:51 pm by Howard Friedman
In the case, a West Virginia federal district court awarded damages to an Evangelical Christian mine employee who who objected to biometric hand scanning to track time and attendance, believing that it involves the Mark of the Beast forbidden in the Book of Revelation. [read post]