Showing posts with label California. Show all posts
Showing posts with label California. Show all posts
Tuesday, November 19, 2024

Parents Sue California High School Alleging Long History of Tolerating Antisemitism

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Suit was filed last week in a California federal district court by parents of six high school students in the Sequoia Union High School Dist...
Friday, November 08, 2024

Firefighters Can Move Ahead With Title VII Claims Over Forced Leave to Accommodate Religious Objections to Covid Vaccine

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In Bingham   v. City of San Jose , (CA App., Oct. 30, 2024), a California state appeals court held that five San Jose firefighters who were ...
Wednesday, November 06, 2024

Eviction Did Not Violate Plaintiff's Free Exercise Rights

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In Wexler v. City of San Diego, California ,  (SD CA, Nov. 4, 2024), a California federal district court rejected plaintiff's claim that...
Tuesday, October 29, 2024

9th Circuit: California IDEA Rules Violate Free Exercise Clause

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In Loffman v, California Department of Education , (9th Cir., Oct. 28, 2024), the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a California fe...
Sunday, October 06, 2024

Pregnancy Centers Sue California AG To Stop Enforcement of Business Fraud Statutes Against Them

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Suit was filed last week in a California federal district court by a California anti-abortion pregnancy center and a Christian organization ...
Thursday, September 12, 2024

9th Circuit: Requiring Tree Trimming Did Not Violate Plaintiff's Free Exercise Rights

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In Joseph v. City of San Jose ,  (9th Cir., Sept. 11, 2024), the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals rejected plaintiff's claim that enfor...
Friday, July 19, 2024

Suit Challenges California's Ban on School Parental Notification Requirements as to Gender Transitioning

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A school district and parents of school-age children filed suit this week in a California federal district court challenging California'...
Thursday, July 18, 2024

9th Circuit: Zen Apprentice's Suit Dismissed Under Ministerial Exception Doctrine

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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...
Tuesday, June 11, 2024

State Funding of Only Secular Home-School Materials Upheld

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In Woolard v. Thurmond ,  (ED CA, June 10, 2024), a California federal district court rejected challenges by parents of children enrolled in...
Thursday, June 06, 2024

UCLA Students Sue University For Failing to Protect Jewish Students

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Three Jewish students at UCLA yesterday filed a civil rights lawsuit in a California federal district court alleging that the University, by...
Friday, May 31, 2024

Lifeguard Sues L.A. County Over Required Flag Raising for Pride Month

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A suit was filed last week in a California federal district court by plaintiff who is employed as a lifeguard by Los Angeles County objectin...

Civil Court Must Accept Disciplinary Actions by Hierarchical Church's Parent Body

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In San Jose Korean Central Church v. Korean Evangelical Church of America ,  (CA App., May 29, 2024), a California state appellate court app...
Thursday, May 23, 2024

Churches' Challenges To Day Care Licensing Dismissed

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In Foothills Christian Ministries v. Johnson , (SD CA, May 20, 2024), a California federal district court dismissed challenges by three chur...
Tuesday, April 02, 2024

Suit For Misappropriating Church Funds Not Precluded by Church Autonomy Doctrine

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In Buck v. Peace Apostolic Church, Inc. , (CA Super. Ct., March 8, 2024), a California trial court rejected the contention that the church a...
Wednesday, March 27, 2024

DOJ Sues California Prisons for Failing to Accommodate Officers' Religious Beard Requirements

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The Department of Justice this week filed suit in a California federal district court seeking to enjoin the California correctional system f...

California's Removal of Personal Belief Exemption from School Immunization Requirement Is Upheld

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 In Royce v. Bonta ,  (SD CA, March 25, 2024), a California federal district court upheld the constitutionality of a law enacted by Californ...
Thursday, February 01, 2024

National Guard General Seeks $1.6M Damages for Antisemitic Harassment and Termination

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A suit charging antisemitic discrimination was filed last week in a California state trial court by a retired Brigadier General in the Air N...
Wednesday, January 31, 2024

Court Rules On Class Action Certification of Claims by Religious Objectors to Covid Vaccine

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 In Chavez v. San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District , (ND CA, Jan. 28,2024), a California federal district court refused to certify ...
Thursday, January 11, 2024

Church May Move Ahead with RFRA Challenge to Limits on Its Use of Ayahuasca

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In  Church of the Celestial Heart v. Garland , (ED CA, Jan. 9, 2023), a California federal magistrate judge refused to dismiss a suit under ...
Wednesday, November 29, 2023

Jewish Groups Sue Over Berkeley Law Student Organizations' Antisemitic Policies

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Suit was filed yesterday in a California federal district court against the University of California at Berkely and Berkeley Law School chal...