Showing posts with label Oregon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Oregon. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 30, 2024

Volunteer Prison Minister's Challenge to Requirements for Addressing LGBTQ Inmates Is Rejected

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In Kuenzi v. Reese ,  (D OR, Oct. 28, 2024), an Oregon federal district court rejected 1st Amendment challenges to an Oregon prison system r...
Wednesday, October 02, 2024

Organization Did Not Show That Its Anti-Abortion Views Are Religious Beliefs

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In Oregon Right to Life v. Stolfi ,  (D OR, Sept. 30, 2024), an Oregon federal district court refused to issue a preliminary injunction agai...
Thursday, August 08, 2024

Jail Guard's Required Training in Treatment of LGBTQI+ Inmates Did Not Violate His Free Exercise Rights

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In Goodknight v. County of Douglas ,  (D OR, Aug. 6, 2024), an Oregon federal district court rejected religious discrimination claims brough...
Thursday, August 01, 2024

Requiring Conditional Use Permit Is Not Substantial Burden Under RLUIPA

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In Athey Creek Christian Fellowship v. Clackamas County , (D OR, July 30, 2024), an Oregon federal district court dismissed a RLUIPA challen...
Wednesday, July 10, 2024

9th Circuit Hears Oral Arguments on Requiring Adoptive Parents to Support Gender Identity of Adoptees

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The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday heard oral arguments ( video of full oral arguments ) in  Bates v. Pakseresht . In the case,...
Thursday, April 25, 2024

Qualified Immunity Granted in Denial of Religious Exemption from Vaccine Mandate

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In Babiy v. Oregon Health and Science University ,  (D OR, April 22, 2024), an Oregon federal district court dismissed claims for damages br...
Thursday, March 28, 2024

Restricting Frequency of Church Free Meal Services Violates RLUIPA

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 In St. Timothy's Episcopal Church v. City of Brookings ,  (D OR, March 27, 2024), an Oregon federal district court held that a zoning o...
Wednesday, March 06, 2024

Christian Organization Challenges Grant Rule Barring Religious Favoritism in Hiring

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Suit was filed this week in an Oregon federal district court challenging an anti-discrimination rule of the Oregon Department of Education t...
Thursday, January 04, 2024

Denial of Religious Exemption to Vaccine Mandate Did Not Violate Title VII

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 In Craven v. Shriners Hospital for Children ,  (D OR, Jan. 2, 2024), an Oregon federal district court dismissed a Title VII religious discr...
Thursday, November 16, 2023

Court Upholds Oregon's Rules for Approving Adoptive Parents Over Free Exercise and Free Speech Challenges

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In Bates v. Pakseresht , (D OR, Nov. 14, 2023), an Oregon federal district court, in a 53-page opinion, rejected plaintiff's challenge t...
Tuesday, October 10, 2023

Feds Settle Suit Brought by Native American Tribes Over Destruction of Sacred Site

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 A settlement between several federal agencies and Native American tribes in Oregon was reached last week in a case challenging the governme...
Friday, September 22, 2023

New Decisions on Covid Vaccine Religious Objection Claims

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Decisions have been handed down in the past few days in several cases in which employees who were denied a religious exemption or accommodat...
Saturday, July 01, 2023

Supreme Court GVR's Case on Bakers' Refusal To Design Cake For Same-Sex Wedding

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On Friday, in  Klein v. Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries, (Docket No. 22-204, GVR'd June 30, 2023) ( Order List ) the U.S. Supreme ...
Wednesday, April 05, 2023

Suit Challenges Oregon Requirement That Adoptive Parents Support Child's Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity

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Suit was filed this week in an Oregon federal district court challenging a rule of the state's Department of Human Services that persons...
Tuesday, November 29, 2022

State Religious Discrimination Claims Against Airline Union Are Pre-empted By Federal Law

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In Brown v. Alaska Airlines, Inc. ,  (WD WA, Nov. 23, 2022), a Washington federal district court dismissed state-law religious discriminatio...
Friday, November 18, 2022

9th Circuit: Religious School's Challenge to Covid Restrictions Is Moot

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In Horizon Christian School v. Brown ,  (9th Cir., Nov. 17, 2022), the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals held that the free exercise and par...
Thursday, November 03, 2022

9th Circuit: Requiring Beauty Pageant to Include Transgender Female Violates Its Free Speech Rights

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In Green v. Miss United States of America, LLC , (9th Cir., Nov. 2, 2022), the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals held that it violates the f...
Monday, September 12, 2022

Certiorari Petition Filed Again In Bakery's Refusal To Design Wedding Cake For Same-Sex Marriage

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Last week, a petition for certiorari ( full text ) was filed with the U.S. Supreme Court in Klein v. Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries, ...
Friday, July 29, 2022

Ministerial Exception Doctrine Requires Dismissal Of Race and National Origin Discrimination Claim

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In Chris v. Kang , (D OR, July 26, 2022), an Oregon federal district court dismissed a claim of race and national origin discrimination brou...
Tuesday, February 01, 2022

Church Challenges City's Limits On Its Offering Meals To Homeless

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Suit was filed last week in an Oregon federal district court by a church challenging a city's ordinance that limits it from offering fre...