Religion Clause

 In Ex Parte Halprin ,  (TX Ct. Crim. App., Nov. 6, 2024), the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals in a 6-3 decision granted a new trial to one ...

In Smith v. Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections ,  (11th Cir., Jan. 24, 2024), the U.S. 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in a 2-1 d...

In Smith v. Hamm ,  (MD AL, Jan. 10, 2024), plaintiff, who is scheduled for execution by nitrogen hypoxia on January 25, challenges the lega...

 In State of Louisiana v. Neveaux , (LA App., Nov. 8, 2023), a Louisiana state appeals court rejected a free exercise challenge to a provisi...

Suit was filed last week in an Indiana federal district court by two ministers who regularly visit death row inmates in a federal penitentia...

In Barbee v. Collier ,  (5th Cir., Nov. 11, 2022), the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals vacated and remanded for further proceedings an inj...

In Barbee v. Collier ,  (SD TX, Nov. 3, 2022), an inmate whose execution had been scheduled sought a court order from a Texas federal distri...

In Maisonet v. Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections ,  (11th Cir., Sept. 16, 2022), the U.S. 11th Circuit Court of Appeals affirm...

  AP reports that on July 5 the federal district court for the Southern District of Texas in Gonzales v. Collier  issued a temporary injunc...

Texas Tribune reports that yesterday a Texas state trial court judge rejected a request submitted jointly by the prosecutor and the defense...

In Smith v. Li ,  (MD TN, April 20, 2022), a Tennessee federal district court, in a RLUIPA suit by an inmate about to be executed, enjoined ...

In Maisonet v. Dunn ,  (SD AL, Nov. 17, 2021), an Alabama federal magistrate judge recommended dismissing for lack of standing a suit by an ...

The Supreme Court hears oral arguments this morning in Ramirez v. Collier. In the case, a convicted murderer is suing for permission to have...

The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday, by a vote of 5-3, in a brief Order ( full text ) vacated a stay of execution that had been entered by the...

In Ramirez v. Collier , (5th Cir., Sept. 6, 2021), the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, by a vote of 2-1, affirmed a Texas federal distric...

In United States v. Roof ,  (4th Cir., Aug. 25, 2021), the U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals, in a 149-page opinion, affirmed the hate crime...

  AP and Texas Tribune  report that Texas prisons will now allow any inmate being executed to have his personal religious adviser with him ...

This week, the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom issued a Fact Sheet on The Use of Shari’a as Religious Justification for C...

As reported by SCOTUSblog , in a jigsaw puzzle-like set of opinions and orders the U.S. Supreme Court last night just before midnight Easter...

In Smith v. Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections ,  (11t Cir., Feb. 10, 2021), the U.S. 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, in a 2-1 d...