Showing posts with label California. Show all posts
Showing posts with label California. Show all posts
Wednesday, June 18, 2025

California May Proceed With False Advertising Charges Against Abortion Pill Reversal Promoters

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In Culture of Life Family Services, Inc. v. Bonta ,  (SD CA, June 13, 2025), a California federal district court refused to enter a prelimin...
Wednesday, June 11, 2025

DOJ Sues California Coffee House for Discriminating Against Jewish Customers

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On Monday, the Justice Department filed suit in a California federal district court against an Oakland, California coffee house alleging vio...
Thursday, May 29, 2025

Teacher's Refusal to Use Student's Preferred Pronouns Justified Her Being Fired

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 In Ramirez v. Oakland Unified School District ,  (ND CA, May 27, 2025), a California federal district court dismissed claims by a former ki...
Thursday, May 22, 2025

California Agrees to Consent Decree Allowing Sectarian Schools to Participate In IDEA

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 As previously reported , last October the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a California federal district court's dismissal of...

Exclusion of Religious Organization from Non-Profit Discount Challenged Under California's Unruh Act

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Suit was filed yesterday in a California federal district court by a Christian non-profit claiming that OpenAI's non-profit discount pol...
Wednesday, May 07, 2025

Church's Removal of Congregant from Services Did Not Violate 1st Amendment

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 In Devi v. Sacramento Bhartiya Sabha ,  (ED CA, May 2, 2025), a California federal magistrate judge recommended dismissal of a suit against...
Tuesday, April 22, 2025

Parents Lack Standing to Challenge Law Barring Schools from Disclosing Child's Change of Name or Pronoun

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In Chino Valley Unified School District v. Newsom ,  (ED CA, April 18, 2025), a California federal district court held that plaintiffs, pare...
Thursday, April 17, 2025

Appellate Court Upholds $1.2M Fine Against Church for Violating Covid Public Health Orders

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In People of the State of California v. Calvary Chapel San Jose ,  (CA App., April 15, 2025), a California state appellate court affirmed th...
Wednesday, April 09, 2025

Denial of Conditional Use Permit to Church Violated RLUIPA and 1st Amendment

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In Anchor Stone Christian Church v. City of Santa Ana ,  (CD CA, April 7, 2025), a California federal district court issued a preliminary in...
Wednesday, March 19, 2025

Court Upholds California's Repeal of Personal Belief Exemption from School Vaccination Mandate

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 In Royce v. Pan ,  (SD CA, March 17, 2025), a California federal district court rejected a free exercise challenge to California's remo...
Thursday, March 13, 2025

9th Circuit: Profs Lack Standing to Challenge Addition of Caste Discrimination to University's Anti-Discrimination Policy

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In Kumar v. Koester ,  (9th Cir., March 12, 2023), the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals held that two Hindu California State University col...
Monday, March 10, 2025

Supreme Court Denies Cert. In Title VII Religioius Discrimination Case

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The U.S. Supreme Court today denied review in Hittle v. City of Stockton, California , (Docket No. 24-427, certiorari  denied 3/10/2025). Ju...
Friday, March 07, 2025

DOJ Starts Title VII "Pattern or Practice" Investigation of Antisemitism at University of California

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The Department of Justice has launched an employment discrimination investigation of the University of California. A DOJ  press release thi...
Tuesday, March 04, 2025

Coffee House Sued Over Separate Antisemitic Incidents Involving Harassment of Customers

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 A suit under California's Unruh Civil Rights Act alleging religious discrimination was filed yesterday in a California state trial cour...
Wednesday, February 19, 2025

Suit Challenges Software Company's Denial of Discount to Christian Nonprofit

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A suit under California's Unruh Civil Rights Act was filed yesterday in a California federal district court by a Christian nonprofit org...
Tuesday, February 18, 2025

Refusing to Allow Minister To Wear Collar At His Criminal Trial Was Not Reversable Error

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 In People v. Johnson ,  (CA App., Feb. 18, 2025), a California state appellate court held that a trial court's refusal to allow a crimi...
Thursday, February 13, 2025

Refusal To Sell Generic Cake for Same-Sex Wedding Reception Violates California Anti-Discrimination Law

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In Civil Rights Department v. Cathy's Creations, Inc. ,  (CA App., Feb. 11, 2025), a California state appellate court in a 74-page opini...
Thursday, February 06, 2025

University Did Not Violate Constitution by Permitting Anti-Zionist Encampment

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In Groveman v. Regents of the University of California ,  (ED CA, Feb. 4, 2025), a California federal district court dismissed a suit allegi...
Wednesday, January 29, 2025

Lifeguard Who Has Religious Objections to Pride Month Has Claim for Undermining of His Religious Accommodation

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In Little v. Los Angeles County Fire Department ,  (CD CA, Jan. 25, 2025), a California federal district court allowed a Fire Department cap...
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

9th Circuit: Police Department's LGBTQ Outreach Was Government Speech That Did Not Violate 1st Amendment

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In Sangervasi v. City of San Jose ,  (9th Cir., Jan. 14, 2025), the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a California federal district...