AJC Supports Cert In Case On Religious Drug Rehabilitation Programs

Today the American Jewish Congress announced that it has filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court supporting the granting of certiorari in the case of Hanas v. Michigan. At issue is whether the Michigan courts violated the First Amendment rights of a practicing Roman Catholic drug user by requiring him to attend a pervasively religious evangelical Protestant drug rehabilitation program in order to avoid jail or obtain an expungement of his criminal record. The original petition for certiorari was filed in January by the ACLU of Michigan.