Showing posts with label Missouri. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Missouri. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 24, 2024

Missouri Supreme Court Issues Opinions Supporting Prior Order on Abortion Ballot Measure

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As previously reported , on September 14 the Missouri Supreme Court ruled that the Missouri's Right to Reproductive Freedom amendment mu...
Wednesday, September 11, 2024

Missouri Supreme Court: Abortion Rights Issue Must Appear on November Ballot

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 The Missouri Supreme Court yesterday ruled that the Missouri's Right to Reproductive Freedom amendment must appear on the November ball...
Sunday, September 08, 2024

Trial Court Says Missouri's Abortion Rights Initiative Petitions Were Invalid

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In Coleman v. Ashcroft , (MO Cir. Ct., Sept. 6, 2024), a Missouri state trial court held that the petitions used to obtain signatures to inc...
Thursday, September 05, 2024

Missouri Appeals Court Refers Question of Church's Duty of Supervision to State Supreme Court

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 In Doe v. First Baptist Church of Pierce City, Missouri ,  (MO App., Sept. 2, 2023), a Missouri appellate court described plaintiff's c...
Monday, July 29, 2024

6 More States Enjoin Enforcement of New Title IX Rules Barring Transgender Discrimination

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Yet another court has enjoined the Department of Education from enforcing its new Title IX rules that interpret Title IX's ban on sex d...
Saturday, June 15, 2024

Missouri Abortion Bans Do Not Violate State Constitution's Establishment Clauses

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In Blackmon v. State of Missouri ,  (MO Cir. Ct., June 1, 2024), a Missouri trial court held that Missouri's various statutory provision...
Thursday, December 21, 2023

Negligence Claims Against Religious Boarding School Barred by Establishment Clause

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In Drew v. Householder , (WD MO, Dec. 19, 2023), plaintiff sued Circle of Hope Boarding School, a fundamentalist Baptist school for girls, a...
Thursday, November 02, 2023

Missouri Appeals Court Finds Secretary of State's Ballot Summary of Abortion Rights Initiatives Unfair

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In Fitz-James v. Ashcroft ,  (MO App., Oct. 31, 2023), a Missouri state appeals court agreed with a trial court that ballot summaries prepar...
Friday, July 21, 2023

Missouri Supreme Court Orders Steps to Allow Reproductive Rights Initiative Petitions to Be Circulated

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In State of Missouri ex rel. Dr. Anna Fitz-James v. Bailey ,  (MO Sup. Ct., July 20, 2023), the Missouri Supreme Court affirmed a trial cour...
Saturday, July 01, 2023

Certiorari Granted in Case on Interpretation of Title VII

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On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court granted review in Muldrow v. St. Louis, MO,  (Docket No. 22-193, certiorari  granted 6/30/2023) ( Order Li...
Friday, June 23, 2023

Teachers May Move Ahead with Suit Challenging Denial of Exemption from Covid Vaccine Mandate

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 In Brandon v. Board of Education of the City of St. Louis ,  (ED MO, June 21, 2023), a Missouri federal district court refused to dismiss F...
Friday, January 20, 2023

Suit By Clergy Challenges Missouri Abortion Bans

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Suit was filed this week in a Missouri state trial court by 13 clergy from several Christian denominations, as well as from Unitarian Univer...
Thursday, October 13, 2022

8th Circuit: City Food Ordinance Did Not Violate Pastor's Free Speech Rights

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In Redlich v. City of St. Louis ,  (8th Cir., Oct. 12, 2022), the U.S. 8th Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the dismissal of a suit brought...
Friday, June 10, 2022

Christian Mission's Suit Over Sex Offender Statute Is Moot

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In City Union Mission, Inc. v. Sharp ,  (8th Cir., June 10, 2022), the U.S. 8th Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the dismissal of a suit br...
Wednesday, December 29, 2021

Muslim Woman Sues Gun Range For Religious Discrimination

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A religious discrimination suit was filed yesterday in a Missouri federal district court against a "faith, family and freedom" bas...
Monday, August 02, 2021

8th Circuit: Challenge To Church Capacity Limits Dismissed On Mootness and Standing Grounds

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 In Hawse v. Page ,  (8th Cir., July 30, 2021), the U.S. 8th Circuit Court of Appeals, in a 2-1 decision, dismissed on standing and mootness...
Sunday, July 25, 2021

Food Ordinance Does Not Violate Rights Of Christians Distributing Sandwiches

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In Redlich v. City of St. Louis ,  (ED MO, July 22, 2021), a Missouri federal magistrate judge dismissed a suit by two officers of the New L...
Tuesday, June 15, 2021

College Seeks Injunction Pending Appeal To 8th Circuit In Suit Against HUD's Transgender Policy On Student Housing

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In February of this year, the Department of Housing and Urban Development issued a Directive  interpreting the Fair Housing Act as barring d...
Wednesday, May 19, 2021

County's Current COVID Restrictions Upheld

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In Abundant Life Baptist Church of Lee's Summit, Missouri v. Jackson County, Missouri ,  (WD MO, May 17, 2021), a Missouri federal distr...
Wednesday, May 12, 2021

Missouri AG Sues County Over COVID Restrictions

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Missouri's Attorney General yesterday filed suit in state court against the St. Louis County Executive challenging the county's COVI...