Showing posts with label Minnesota. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Minnesota. Show all posts
Thursday, February 26, 2026

Clergy Seek Access To ICE Detainees

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Suit was filed this week in a Minnesota federal district court by Evangelical Lutheran and United Church of Christ organizations and by a Ca...
Tuesday, February 03, 2026

Journalist Don Lemon Indicted Under FACE Act Because of Church Anti-ICE Protest

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As announced by Attorney General Pam Bondi on X last Tuesday: At my direction, early this morning federal agents arrested Don Lemon, Traher...
Friday, August 29, 2025

Pharmacists Sue for Religious Accommodation to Avoid Dispensing Gender-Affirming Drugs

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Two Walgreens pharmacists filed suit last week in a Minnesota federal district court challenging the drug chain's refusal to accommodate...
Monday, August 25, 2025

Ban on Faith Statements by Colleges Participating in Program for High Schoolers Violates Free Exercise Clause

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Loe v. Jett ,  (D MN, Aug. 22, 2025), is a challenge to a 2023 Amendment to Minnesota's Post Secondary Education Option (PSEO) statute. ...
Friday, June 06, 2025

Ministerial Exception Doctrine Applies to Title VII Claim of Business Prof at Christian University

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In Schmidt v. University of Northwestern- St. Paul ,  (D MN, June 5, 2025), a Minnesota federal district court held that the ministerial exc...
Wednesday, May 21, 2025

Suit Challenges Minnesota Policies Allowing Transgender Girls to Compete on Girl's High School Teams

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A Title IX suit was filed this week in a Minnesota federal district court by an advocacy organization challenging Minnesota's high schoo...
Monday, December 30, 2024

Court Denies Preliminary Injunction Against Moratorium Delaying Building of Mosque

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In Zikar Holdings, LLC v. Ruhland ,  (D MN, Dec. 26, 2024), a Minnesota federal district court refused to issue a preliminary injunction to ...
Sunday, May 26, 2024

8th Circuit Reverses Dismissal of Suit for Failure to Accommodate Religious Objections to Vaccine Mandate

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In Ringhofer v. Mayo Clinic, Ambulance ,  (8th Cir., May 24, 2024), the U.S. 8th Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a Minnesota federal distr...
Wednesday, March 20, 2024

Pharmacist Violated Sex Discrimination Ban in Refusing to Fill Prescription for Emergency Contraceptive

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 In Anderson v. Aitkin Pharmacy Services, LLC ,  (MN App., March 18, 2024), a Minnesota state appellate court held that a pharmacist violate...
Friday, December 22, 2023

Minnesota Court Hears Oral Arguments on Pharmacist's Refusal To Dispense Morning-After Pill

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The Minnesota Court of Appeals yesterday heard oral arguments ( audio of full oral arguments ) in Anderson v. Aitkin Pharmacy Services, LLC,...
Wednesday, November 01, 2023

Free Speech and Free Exercise Challenges to Law Restricting Sidewalk Counselors Moves Ahead

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In Pro-Life Action Ministries v. City of Minneapolis ,  (D MN, Oct. 30,2022), a Minnesota federal district court dismissed void-for-vaguenes...
Tuesday, September 19, 2023

Prof's Suit Over Display of Prophet Muhammad Paintings Will Move Ahead In Federal Court On Religious Discrimination Claim

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In López Prater v. Trustees of Hamline University of Minnesota , (D MN, Sept. 15, 2023), a Minnesota federal district court upheld defendant...
Thursday, August 31, 2023

8th Circuit Rejects Satanic Temple's Complaint Over Closing Park to Its Display

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 In The Satanic Temple v. City of Belle Plaine, Minnesota , (8th Cir., Aug. 30, 2023), the U.S. 8th Circuit Court of Appeals held that the d...
Tuesday, July 11, 2023

County Did Not Show Compelling Interest in Requiring Amish Plaintiffs to Use Septic Tanks

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In Must v. County of Fillmore ,  (MN App., July 10, 2023), a Minnesota state appellate court in a suit brought under RLUIPA held that the co...
Tuesday, June 13, 2023

Minnesota Appeals Court Decides 4 Cases on Religious Exemptions from Vaccine Mandates

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Yesterday, the Minnesota Court of Appeals decided four separate appeals from decisions of Unemployment Law Judges who denied unemployment be...
Thursday, May 25, 2023

Suit Challenges High School-College Dual Enrollment Plan Exclusion of Some Religious Colleges

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Suit was filed yesterday in a Minnesota federal district court challenging a Minnesota statute that excludes certain religious colleges from...
Tuesday, May 23, 2023

AAUP Issues Report on Hamline University Islamic Art Controversy

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 The Association of American University Professors Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure has released its report ( full text ) on the a...
Thursday, May 11, 2023

8th Circuit Upholds Constitutionality of Federal Ban on Damaging Religious Real Property

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In United States v. Hari , (8th Cir., May 10, 2023), the U.S. 8th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the constitutionality under the Commerce C...
Sunday, April 30, 2023

Governors In Minnesota and Washington Sign Bills Protecting Access to Abortion and Gender-Affirming Care

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On April 27, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz signed three bills protecting right to abortion and gender-affirming health care.  A  press release...
Wednesday, March 08, 2023

Minnesota Appeals Court Decides When Religious Reasons for Vaccine Refusal Were Proven

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In three cases decided within days of each other, the Minnesota Court of Appeals wrestled with the question of whether employees' claims...