Showing posts with label Legislative Prayer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Legislative Prayer. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 03, 2024

Satanic Temple Can Move Ahead with Establishment Clause Challenge to Its Treatment by City Council

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In The Satanic Temple v. The City of Chicago , (ND IL, March 31, 2024), an Illinois federal district court held that The Satanic Temple (&qu...
Friday, October 06, 2023

Episcopal Priest Sues County Commissioners Over Invocation Policy

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Suit was filed this week in a Michigan federal district court by an Episcopal Priest in Grand Haven, Michigan, challenging the manner in whi...
Friday, August 04, 2023

Denying Satanic Temple's Invocation Request Upheld

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In The Satanic Temple, Inc. v. City of Boston ,  (D MA, July 31, 2023), a Massachusetts federal district court upheld Boston City Council...
Tuesday, May 09, 2023

Satanic Temple Sues to Deliver Invocation at Chicago City Council

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The Satanic Temple filed suit last week in an Illinois federal district court challenging the city's exclusion of its clergy from delive...
Tuesday, October 04, 2022

11th Circuit: City Council Invocation Is Government Speech

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In Gundy v. City of Jacksonville Florida ,  (11th Cir., Sept. 30, 2022), the U.S. 11th Circuit Court of appeals held that an invocation open...
Friday, September 30, 2022

Courtroom Invocations Did Not Violate Establishment Clause [UPDATED]

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In Freedom From Religion Foundation v. Mack ,  (5th Cir., Sept. 29, 2022), the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals held that a program devised...
Wednesday, May 18, 2022

City Council's Opening Of Meetings With Lord's Prayer Violates Establishment Clause

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In Cobranchi v. City of Parkersburg ,  (D WV, May 17, 2022), a West Virginia federal district court held that Parkersburg's City Council...
Thursday, July 22, 2021

Satanic Temple Can Move Ahead With Establishment Clause Claim As To Invocation Denial

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In The Satanic Temple, Inc. v. City of Boston, MA  (D MA, July 21, 2021), a Massachusetts federal district court refused to dismiss an Estab...
Tuesday, July 13, 2021

5th Circuit: Courtroom Invocations Do Not Violate Establishment Clause

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In Freedom From Religion Foundation, Inc. v. Mack ,  (5th Cir., July 9, 2021), the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals granted a stay pending ...
Thursday, May 20, 2021

9th Circuit: Denial of Invocation Spot To Satanic Temple Was OK

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 In The Satanic Temple, Inc. v. City of Scottsdale ,  (9th Cir., May 19, 2021), the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed an Arizona fe...
Monday, April 26, 2021

Cutoff of Pastor's City Council Invocation Did Not Violate 1st Amendment

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In Gundy v. City of Jacksonville, Florida ,  2021 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 78850 (MD FL, March 22, 2021)-- decided last month but just available on...
Saturday, March 20, 2021

9th Circuit Hears Oral Arguments In The Satanic Temple's Suit On Invocations

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On Thursday, the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals heard oral arguments ( video of full arguments ) in The Satanic Temple v. City of Scottsd...
Wednesday, January 27, 2021

Satanic Temple Challenges Boston City Council's Prayer Policy

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Earlier this week, The Satanic Temple filed suit in a Massachusetts federal district court challenging the policy of Boston City Council for...
Friday, February 07, 2020

Court Upholds Denial of Invocation Slot For Satanic Temple

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In Satanic Temple v. City of Scottsdale ,  (D AZ, Feb. 6, 2020), an Arizona federal district court held that the Satanic Temple failed to pr...
Tuesday, November 19, 2019

Satanic Temple Can Proceed In Its Attempt To Offer City Council Invocation

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In The Satanic Temple, Inc. v. City of Scottsdale , (D AZ, Nov. 18, 2019), an Arizona federal district court refused to dismiss a suit by Th...
Friday, August 30, 2019

County Settles Suit Over Invocation Policy

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According to yesterday's Carroll County Times , the Carroll County, Maryland, Board of Commissioners voted unanimously yesterday to sett...
Sunday, August 25, 2019

3rd Circuit Upholds Pennsylvania Legislative Prayer Policy

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In Fields v. Speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives ,  (3d Cir., Aug. 23, 2019), the U.S. 3rd Circuit Court of appeals, in a 2...
Tuesday, July 09, 2019

11th Circuit: County's Invocation Policy Violates Establishment Clause

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In Williamson v. Brevard County,  (11th Cir., July 8, 2019), the U.S. 11th Circuit Court of Appeals held that the method used by the Brevard...
Wednesday, July 03, 2019

Pastor Sues City Council Over Censorship of His Invocation

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A suit was filed in a Florida federal district court this week by a pastor whose invocation at a Jacksonville City Council meeting was cut o...
Friday, April 19, 2019

DC Circuit: House Can Exclude Secular Invocations

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In Barker v. Conroy ,  (D Cir., April 19, 2019), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit rejected an Establishment Clause challenge t...