Showing posts with label Mississippi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mississippi. Show all posts
Friday, June 14, 2024

DOE Enjoined from Applying New Title IX Rules Protecting Transgender Students In 4 States

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In State of Louisiana v. U.S. Department of Education ,  (WD LA, June 13, 2024), a Louisiana federal district court enjoined the Department ...
Thursday, May 16, 2024

Mississippi Enacts Law Defining "Sex" In Biological Terms

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On May 13, Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves signed Senate Bill 2753, the Securing Areas for Females Effectively and Responsibly (SAFER) Act...
Sunday, January 14, 2024

Court Supervision of Church Election Invalidated by Mississippi Supreme Court

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In Melton v. Union Hill Missionary Baptist Church ,  (MS Sup. Ct., Jan. 11, 2024), the Mississippi Supreme Court reversed and vacated a deci...
Saturday, July 08, 2023

State AG's Warn Target Corp. About Consequences of Its Pride Campaign

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Earlier this week, the Indiana Attorney General, joined by the Attorneys General of Arkansas, Idaho, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri and Sou...
Thursday, April 20, 2023

Mississippi Must Grant Religious Exemptions To School Vaccination Requirements

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 In Bosarge v. Edney ,  (SD MS, April 18, 2023), a Mississippi federal district court issued a preliminary injunction requiring Mississippi&...
Friday, March 03, 2023

Objectors To Religious Motto on License Plates May Cover the Motto

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In Griggs v. Graham ,  (SD MS, March 2, 2023), plaintiffs objected to the design of the default Mississippi license plates that included the...
Wednesday, March 01, 2023

Mississippi Governor Signs Ban on Gender Transition Procedures for Minors

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Yesterday Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves signed into law House Bill 1125, the Regulate Experimental Adolescent Procedures Act  ( full text...
Friday, July 08, 2022

Mississippi Trial Court Says State's High Court Would No Langer Find Abortion Right In State Constitution

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 In Jackson Women's Health Organization v. Dobbs , (MS Ch., July 5, 2022), an abortion provider on behalf of itself and its patients sou...
Friday, June 17, 2022

Ecclesiastical Abstention Doctrine Bars Mississippi Courts From Adjudicating Claims Of Fired Diocese Finance Officer

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In Catholic Diocese of Jackson, Mississippi v. DeLange ,  (MS Sup. Ct., June 16, 2022), the Mississippi Supreme Court held that the ecclesia...

Parents' Group Says Infrastructure Appropriations To Private Schools Violate Mississippi Constitution

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A parents' organization has filed suit in a Mississippi state trial court challenging two Mississippi laws that together appropriate $10...
Wednesday, January 05, 2022

Consent Decree Entered In Suit Claiming Religious Discrimination In Action Against Mosque Construction

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 A consent decree ( full text ) was entered yesterday in a Mississippi federal district court in Abraham House of God and Cemetery, Inc. v. ...
Wednesday, December 01, 2021

Oral Arguments In Supreme Court On Mississippi Abortion Case

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Here are links to the transcript and audio of oral arguments this morning in  Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, a challenge to...
Tuesday, November 30, 2021

Supreme Court Will Hear Arguments Wednesday In Term's Major Abortion Case

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Tomorrow morning, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in  Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization,  a challenge to the Mississip...
Saturday, November 20, 2021

141 Amicus Briefs Filed In Mississippi Abortion Law Case

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Oral arguments in  Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization , the much-watched Mississippi abortion case, will be heard by the Supreme C...
Thursday, November 04, 2021

Mississippi City Is Sued Over Refusal To Approve Mosque Site Plan

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Suit was filed yesterday in a Mississippi federal district court alleging that the City of Horn Lake denied approval of the site plan for a ...
Saturday, September 25, 2021

Zoning Ordinance Violates Equal Terms Provision of RLUIPA

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In The Church at Jackson v. Hinds County, Mississippi ,  (SD MS, Sept. 23, 2021), a Mississippi federal district court held that the equal t...
Saturday, August 14, 2021

Mississippi Supreme Court Rejects Claims By Pastor's Former Wife Against His Church On Unusual Facts

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In Woodard v. Miller ,  (MS Sup. Ct., Aug. 12, 2021), the Mississippi Supreme Court applied the ecclesiastical abstention doctrine in an unu...
Wednesday, June 23, 2021

Suit Challenges "In God We Trust" On Mississippi License Plates

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Suit was filed yesterday in a Mississippi federal district court by atheist and secular humanist plaintiffs challenging the constitutionalit...
Tuesday, May 18, 2021

Supreme Court Grants Review In Mississippi Abortion Ban Case

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Yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court granted review in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Center,  (Docket No. 19-2392, certiorari granted 5/1...
Friday, March 12, 2021

Mississippi Bans Transgender Women From Girls' and Women's Sports Teams

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Yesterday Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves signed  Senate Bill 2536 ( full text ) which prohibits women's or girl's athletic teams b...