Showing posts with label Minnesota. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Minnesota. Show all posts
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...
Sunday, January 29, 2023

Minnesota Passes Law Guaranteeing Right To Abortions

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The Minnesota legislature yesterday gave final passage to HF1, the Protect Reproductive Options Act ( full text ). It provides in part: Eve...
Thursday, August 04, 2022

Street Preacher Gets Injunction Against Ordinance Limiting Microphones

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In Miller v. City of Excelsior, Minnesota , (D MN, Aug. 2, 2022), a Minnesota federal district court granted a preliminary injunction agains...
Wednesday, July 13, 2022

Minnesota Abortion Restrictions Struck Down Under State Constitution

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In Doe v. State of Minnesota ,  (MN Dist. Ct., July 11, 2022), a Minnesota state trial court judge in a 140-page opinion held that a series ...
Friday, September 17, 2021

Satanic Temple Loses Fight Over City's Revocation Of Display Permit

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In The Satanic Temple v. City of Belle Plaine, Minnesota ,  (D MN, Sept. 15, 2021), a Minnesota federal district court dismissed the promiss...
Monday, July 19, 2021

Minnesota Governor Orders Agencies To Combat Conversion Therapy

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On July 15, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz issued Executive Order 21-25 ( full text ) providing: All state agencies must pursue opportunities a...
Sunday, July 04, 2021

Supreme Court GVR's Amish Families' Challenge To Septic Tank Requirements

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On Friday, in Mast v. Fillmore County, Minnesota ,  (Sup. Ct., July 2, 2021), the U.S. Supreme Court granted certiorari,  summarily vacated ...
Monday, April 05, 2021

Churches' Challenge to Minnesota COVID Orders Moves Ahead

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In Northland Baptist Church of St. Paul, Minnesota v. Walz ,  (D MN, March 30, 2021), a Minnesota federal district court refused to dismiss ...