Showing posts with label Free exercise. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Free exercise. Show all posts
Monday, April 08, 2024

Texas' Claim Against HHS Over Pharmacy Guidance Dismissed As Moot

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In State of Texas v. U.S. Department of Health & Human Services ,  (WD TX, April 5, 2024), a Texas federal district court dismissed as m...
Saturday, April 06, 2024

Religiously Motivated Aid for Drug Abusers Not Protected by RFRA or 1st Amendment

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In United States v. Safehouse ,  (ED PA, April 3, 2024), a Pennsylvania federal district court held that neither the Religious Freedom Resto...
Wednesday, April 03, 2024

Inmates Sue Claiming Religious Need to Watch Solar Eclipse

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Suit was filed last week in a New York federal district court by six inmates at the Woodbourne Correctional Facility in Sullivan County, New...
Wednesday, March 27, 2024

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...
Tuesday, March 26, 2024

Denial of Religious Exemption from Vaccine Mandate Did Not Violate Title VII or Constitution

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In White v. University of Washington ,  (WD WA, March 22, 2024), a Washington federal district court rejected Title VII as well as constitut...
Thursday, March 21, 2024

Satanic Temple Sues School Board Over Discriminatory Rental Fees for Satan Club

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The Satanic Temple filed suit this week in a Tennessee federal district court complaining that the Memphis-Shelby County School Board is pla...

Christian Food Ministry Sues to End City's Attempts to Close It Down

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 Last week, a Yuma County, Arizona Baptist church filed suit in an Arizona federal district court challenging actions the city of San Luis h...
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...
Friday, March 15, 2024

Custody Order Barring Father from Taking Child to His Church Upheld

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In Bardonner v. Bardonner ,  (IN App., March 12, 2024), the Indiana Court of Appeals held that a father's free exercise rights were not ...

Wisconsin Supreme Court Says Catholic Charities Not Exempt from Unemployment Comp Law

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 In Catholic Charities Bureau, Inc. v. State of Wisconsin Labor and Industry Review  Commission ,  (WI Sup. Ct., March 14, 2024), the Wiscon...
Wednesday, March 13, 2024

New York's Removal of Religious Exemption from School Vaccination Requirement Is Upheld

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In Miller v. McDonald ,  (WD NY, March 11, 2024), a New York federal district court upheld New York's removal of religious exemptions fr...
Monday, March 11, 2024

Ban on Caste Discrimination Is Constitutional

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In Bagal v. Sawant ,  (WD WA, March 8, 2024), a Washington federal district court rejected First and 14th Amendment challenges to the City o...
Friday, March 08, 2024

Student Sues School Board Alleging Gender Affirming Policies Violate Her Rights

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Suit was filed earlier this week in a Virgina state trial court by a high school student challenging Fairfax County School Board regulations...
Wednesday, March 06, 2024

Christian Organization Challenges Grant Rule Barring Religious Favoritism in Hiring

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Suit was filed this week in an Oregon federal district court challenging an anti-discrimination rule of the Oregon Department of Education t...
Monday, March 04, 2024

RLUIPA Safe harbor Does Not Extend to Claims for Monetary Damages

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 In Bair Brucha Inc. v. Township of Toms River, New Jersey , (D NJ, Feb. 29, 2024), a New Jersey federal district court granted plaintiffs j...
Thursday, February 29, 2024

Election of Student School Board Member by Public School Students Did Not Violate Free Exercise Clause

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 In Kim v. Board of Education of Howard County ,  (4th Cir., Feb. 28, 2024), the U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the dismissal of...
Wednesday, February 28, 2024

Court Upholds Maine's Law Barring LGBTQ Discrimination by Christian School Receiving State Funds

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In Crosspoint Church v. Maikin ,  (D ME, Feb. 27, 2024), a Maine federal district court refused to enjoin application of the state's edu...
Tuesday, February 27, 2024

Cert. Filed In Religious Broadcasters' Appeal of Mandatory Royalty Rates

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 A petition for certiorari ( full text ) was filed last week with the U.S. Supreme Court in National Religious Broadcasters Noncommercial Mu...
Saturday, February 24, 2024

Pakistan Supreme Court Defends Free Exercise Rights of Ahmadis; Protests Follow

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Earlier this month, a 2-judge panel of the Pakistani Supreme Court in Mubarak Ahmad Sani v. The State,  (Pakistan Sup. Ct., Feb. 6, 2024) ( ...
Tuesday, February 20, 2024

Certiorari Denied in Case of Jurors Disqualified Because of Religious Beliefs

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Today the Supreme Court denied review in Missouri Department of Corrections v. Finney ,  ( certiorari denied,  2/20/2024). In the case a Mis...