Showing posts with label New Mexico. Show all posts
Showing posts with label New Mexico. Show all posts
Sunday, March 17, 2024

Denial of Temporary Religious Worker Visa Upheld

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In  Calvary Albuquerque Inc. v. Blinken , (D NM, March 13, 2024), a New Mexico federal district court dismissed challenges to the denial of ...
Friday, February 03, 2023

Satanic Temple Opens Reproductive Health Clinic Offering Its Abortion Ritual

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In a press release issued this week, The Satanic Temple ("TST") announced that it has set up its first Reproductive Health Clinic...
Friday, December 30, 2022

Court Approves Bankruptcy Reorganization Plan for Santa Fe Archdiocese

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The Catholic Archdiocese of Santa Fe, New Mexico announced yesterday that a U.S. Bankruptcy Court has confirmed a Plan of Reorganization th...
Friday, December 16, 2022

Christian Doctors Challenge New Mexico's Assisted Suicide Law

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Suit was filed this week in a New Mexico federal district court by a physician and the Christian Medical & Dental Associations challengi...
Thursday, June 09, 2022

Free Exercise Challenge To New Mexico COVID Orders Moves Ahead

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McKinley v. Grisham ,  (D NM, June 7, 2022), involves various challenges to Executive Orders and Public Health Orders issued by New Mexico o...
Tuesday, July 14, 2020

Court Upholds New Mexico's COVID-19 Limits On Church Services In Lengthy Opinion

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In a 268-page opinion in Legacy Church, Inc. v. Kunkel ,  (D NM, July 13, 2020), Legacy Church lost its challenges under the Free Exercise C...
Saturday, April 18, 2020

Court Upholds New Mexico 5-Person Limit On Size of Church Gatherings

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In Legacy Church, Inc. v. Kunkel ,  (D NM, April 17, 2020), a New Mexico federal district court refused to enjoin enforcement of the Order i...
Tuesday, April 14, 2020

Church Challenges To COVID-19 Orders Proliferate

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Suits challenging COVID-19 orders that ban group church services are proliferating.  Sacramento Bee reported yesterday: A group of Inland...
Sunday, March 29, 2020

10th Circuit Reverses Dismissal Of Inmate's 1st Amendment Claims

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In Khan v. Barela ,  (10th Cir., March 26, 2020), the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in a 35-page opinion reversed a New Mexico federal ...
Monday, December 17, 2018

New Mexico Supreme Court Upholds Textbook Loan Program

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In Moses v. Ruszkowski ,  (NM Sup. Ct., Dec. 13, 2018), the New Mexico Supreme Court in a 5-2 decision held that New Mexico's textbook l...
Tuesday, October 09, 2018

Street Preacher's Suit Against Police Survives Dismissal Motion

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In Craft v. Wright ,  (D NM, Sept. 26, 2018), a New Mexico federal district court refused to dismiss a street preacher's 1st and 4th Ame...
Friday, July 13, 2018

Church Autonomy Doctrine Applies To Shaming By Group Teaching Reincarnation

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In Hubbard v. J Message Group Corp. , (D NM, July 11, 2018), a New Mexico federal magistrate judge dismissed under the church autonomy doctr...
Wednesday, June 20, 2018

EEOC Sues New Mexico Diner For Failing To Accommodate Muslim Employee

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The EEOC announced yesterday that it has filed a Title VII religious discrimination lawsuit against a diner in Farmington, New Mexico. The ...
Thursday, February 15, 2018

City Considering Crowdfunding To Pay Ten Commandments Litigation Costs

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The Farmington Daily Times reports that the city of Bloomfield, New Mexico may take an unusual approach to paying the $700,000 attorneys...
Monday, October 16, 2017

Supreme Court Denies Review In 10 Commandments Case

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The U.S. Supreme Court today denied certiorari in Bloomfield, NM v. Felix, (Docket No. 17-60, cert. denied 10/16/2017) ( Order List ).  In t...
Friday, August 25, 2017

New Mexico Paramilitary Christian Group Members Arrested In Child Abuse Investigation

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Earlier this week, New Mexico authorities raided the Fence Lake (NM) compound of the paramilitary Aggressive Christianity Missions Training ...
Thursday, November 17, 2016

Developments In Two Diocese Bankruptcies

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There have been developments this week in bankruptcy proceedings of two different Catholic dioceses.   RNS reports that the Archdiocese of S...
Thursday, November 10, 2016

10th Circuit: Ten Commandments Monument Violates Establishment Clause

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In Felix v. City of Bloomfield ,  (10th Cir., Nov. 9, 2016), the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals agreed with the district court (see prio...
Thursday, December 31, 2015

New Mexico Supreme Court Files Amended Opinion Again Striking Down Textbook Loan Program

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Last week, the New Mexico Supreme Court denied a motion for a rehearing in its recent Blaine Amendment decision (see prior posting ) invalid...
Thursday, December 24, 2015

Proposed Bill In New Mexico Would Amend RFRA To Protect Religiously- Based LGBT Discrimination

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While New Mexico already has a Religious Freedom Restoration Act, last week two legislators pre-filed a bill for the new session that would ...