Showing posts with label Church services. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Church services. Show all posts
Monday, March 18, 2024

Air Pollution Did Not Violate City Residents' Free Exercise Rights

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In Dancer v. United States ,  (WD MI, March 15, 2024), residents of Kalamazoo, Michigan sued a variety of governmental and private parties a...
Tuesday, March 12, 2024

D.C. Circuit Hears Arguments on Tax Exempt Status of Church Promoting Religious Use of Psychedelic Drug

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The U.S. court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit yesterday heard oral arguments in Iowaska Church of Healing v. Werfel ( audio of full oral ar...
Friday, January 19, 2024

Michigan Prisons Implement Settlement Agreement on Religious Practices

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In a press release yesterday, the Department of Justice announced that Michigan correctional authorities have now fully implemented prison ...
Tuesday, November 21, 2023

2nd Circuit Remands Free Exercise Claim of Inmate Who Could Not Attend Religious Services

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In Wiggins v. Griffin ,  (2d Cir., Nov. 20, 2023), the U.S. 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals vacated and remanded a New York federal district co...
Tuesday, August 29, 2023

Challenge To Maine's Past Covid Restrictions on Churches Is Dismissed

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In In re COVID-Related Restrictions on Religious Services , (DE Super., Aug. 28, 2023), a Delaware Superior Court dismissed a suit challengi...
Monday, June 05, 2023

Court Refuses to Dismiss Suit by Civil Detainee Who Was Forced to Attend a Christian Religious Service

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In Erie v. Hunter ,  (MD LA, May 31, 2023), a Louisiana federal district court refused to dismiss an Establishment Clause suit brought by a ...
Tuesday, March 14, 2023

COVID Order Violated Priest's Free Exercise Rights

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 In Urso v. Mohammad ,  (D CT, March 10, 2023), a Catholic priest sued a town's health director over COVID orders that cancelled religio...
Tuesday, February 21, 2023

5th Circuit Rejects Pastor's Jurisdictional Theory of Religion Clauses

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 In Spell v. Edwards ,  (5th Cir., Feb. 17, 2023), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit affirmed the dismissal of a suit brought by...
Thursday, February 16, 2023

Church Can Move Ahead Against County in Suit on Covid Restrictions

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 In Abiding Place Ministries v. Newsom ,  (SD CA, Feb. 14, 2023), a California federal district court allowed a church to move ahead with ce...
Wednesday, February 15, 2023

Canadian Church Not in Contempt for Violating Covid Restrictions

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In New Brunswick v. His Tabernacle Family Church Inc. ,  (KB NB, Feb. 3, 2023), a trial court in the Canadian province of New Brunswick refu...
Tuesday, December 27, 2022

New Ohio Law Focuses on Zoom-Bombing and Other Disruptions of Religious Services

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As reported by JTA , the Ohio legislature in its final session earlier this month gave final passage to H.B. 504 ( full text ) amending the ...
Sunday, December 18, 2022

British Columbia's COVID Restrictions on Worship Services Upheld

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In Beaudoin v. Attorney General of British Columbia , (BC Ct. App., Dec. 16, 2022), the highest court in the Canadian province of British Co...
Tuesday, November 29, 2022

3rd Circuit: Challenge to COVID Limits on Worship Services Is Moot

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In Clark v. Governor of the State of New Jersey ,  (3d Cir., Nov. 28, 2022), the U.S. 3rd Circuit Court of appeals in a 2-1 decision held th...
Wednesday, November 23, 2022

Delaware Chancery Court Says Religious Leaders' Challenge to COVID Orders Was Filed in Wrong Court

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In In re Covid Related Restrictions on Religious Services , (Del. Ch., Nov. 22, 2022), the Delaware Court of Chancery held that a challenge ...
Thursday, October 06, 2022

5th Circuit Hears Oral Arguments On Alabama COVID Limits On Religious Gatherings

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 On Oct. 3, the 5th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals heard oral arguments ( audio of full arguments ) in Spell v. Edwards.  Former Alabama Supr...
Wednesday, August 17, 2022

Court Reverses Sanctions Imposed On Church For Violating COVID Orders

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In People v. Calvary Chapel, San Jose ,  (CA App., Aug. 15, 2022), a California state appellate court annulled contempt orders imposed by tr...
Thursday, July 21, 2022

San Francisco Permit Requirement For Park Church Services Enjoined

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In Stewart v. City and County of San Francisco, California ,  (ND CA, June 22, 2022), a California federal district court issued a prelimina...
Thursday, June 09, 2022

Free Exercise Challenge To New Mexico COVID Orders Moves Ahead

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McKinley v. Grisham ,  (D NM, June 7, 2022), involves various challenges to Executive Orders and Public Health Orders issued by New Mexico o...
Friday, January 14, 2022

Challenge to Louisiana COVID Worship Restrictions Dismissed As Moot

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In Spell v. Edwards ,  (MD LA, Jan. 12, 2022), a Louisiana federal district court, on remand from the 5th Circuit, again dismissed a challen...
Thursday, January 13, 2022

7th Circuit: Church's Suit Against Rescinded COVID Order Is Moot

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In Elim Romanian Pentecostal Church v. Pritzker ,  (7th Cir., Jan. 11, 2022), the U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed an Illinois fed...