Showing posts with label Pennsylvania. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pennsylvania. Show all posts
Tuesday, April 29, 2025

Court Refuses to Dismiss Megachurch Pastor's Defamation Suit Against Sex Offender

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In Jakes v. Youngblood ,  (WD PA, April 25, 2025), a Pennsylvania federal district court refused to dismiss under Pennsylvania's anti-SL...
Thursday, April 03, 2025

Trial Court's Refusal to Delay Civil Trial Because of Yom Kippur Is Upheld

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In Dimeo v. Gross ,  (PA Super. Ct., April 2, 2025), a Pennsylvania state appellate court upheld a trial court's refusal to delay the st...
Sunday, February 16, 2025

Parent May Proceed on Some Challenges to School's Policy on Transgender Students

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In Landerer v. Dover Area School District ,  (MD PA, Feb. 13, 2025), a mother challenged a school board's policy Directive that prohibit...
Thursday, February 13, 2025

Designation of Catholic Church as Historic Structure Is Enjoined

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In Zubik v. City of Pittsburgh ,  (WD PA, Feb. 11, 2025), a Pennsylvania federal district court enjoined the city of Pittsburgh from designa...
Friday, January 31, 2025

Justice Department Reaches Settlement with Township Over Sewage Restrictions on Amish Residents

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 In a press release yesterday the Justice Department announced that it has reached a settlement agreement ( full text of proposed Consent O...
Friday, December 20, 2024

Yeshiva Denied Preliminary Injunction Against Zoning Enforcement

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In Anash, Inc., d/b/a Wyoming Valley Yeshiva v. Borough of Kingston ,  (MD PA, Dec. 19, 2024), a Pennsylvania federal district court refused...
Saturday, November 02, 2024

Hospital Employee Who Refused Covid Nasal Swab Testing Is Entitled to Unemployment Benefits

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 In St. Luke's University Hospital v. Unemployment Compensation Board of Review ,  (PA Commonw. Court, Nov. 1, 2024), a Pennsylvania sta...
Wednesday, October 02, 2024

Parents Must Be Given Right to Opt 1st Graders Out of Instruction on Transgender Issues

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In a 94-page opinion in Tatel v. Mt. Lebanon School District ,  (WD PA, Sept. 30, 2024), a Pennsylvania federal district court held that a f...
Sunday, September 01, 2024

PA Supreme Court: Yard Signs Responding to Neighbors' Antisemitism Protected by Pennsylvania Constitution

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In a 4-2 decision in Oberholzer v. Galapo , (PA Sup. Ct., Aug. 20, 2024), the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, relying on the broad free speech p...
Tuesday, July 30, 2024

3rd Circuit: Jury Issues Remain in Suit Over Religious Exemption from Covid Vaccine Mandate

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In Spivack v. City of Philadelphia , (3d Cir.,   July 29, 2024), the U.S. 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals vacated the dismissal of a suit broug...
Tuesday, May 21, 2024

Medicaid Limit on Reimbursing for Family Care Did Not Violate Muslim Family's Free Exercise Rights

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In Alsyrawan v. Department of Human Services ,  (PA Commonwealth Ct., May 20, 2024), a Pennsylvania state appellate court held that Medicaid...
Monday, January 29, 2024

Pennsylvania Supreme Court Casts Doubt on Abortion Exclusion From State Medicaid Coverage

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In  Allegheny Reproductive Health Center v. Pennsylvania Department of Human Services , (PA Sup. Ct., Jan. 29, 2024) [Majority Opinion], the...
Friday, January 12, 2024

State Regulation of Catholic Childcare Program Upheld

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In South Hills Catholic Academy v. Department of Human Services , (PA Commonwealth Ct., Jan. 11, 2024), a Pennsylvania appellate court rejec...
Tuesday, December 19, 2023

Church Buses Used in Released-Time Programs Not Subject to School Bus Regulations

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In CBM Ministries of South Central Pennsylvania, Inc. v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania , (PA Commonwlth.. Ct., Dec. 18, 2023), the Pennsylvan...
Saturday, December 09, 2023

U Penn Sued Over Hostile Antisemitic Campus Environment

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Suit was filed earlier this week in a Pennsylvania federal district court by two Jewish students alleging that the hostile environment for J...
Thursday, December 07, 2023

Exclusion of Parochial School Students from District's Extracurricular Activities Violates Free Exercise

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In  Religious Rights Foundation of PA v. State College Area School District ,  (MD PA, Dec. 1, 2023), a Pennsylvania federal district court ...
Tuesday, October 31, 2023

Pennsylvania Legislature Repeals Ban on Public School Teachers Wearing Religious Garb or Insignia

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Yesterday, the Pennsylvania legislature gave final passage to Senate Bill 84 ( full text ) which repeals Pennsylvania's ban on public s...
Wednesday, October 11, 2023

Cert. Filed In Abortion Sidewalk Counseling Dispute

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 A petition for certiorari ( full text ) was filed yesterday with the U.S. Supreme Court in Reilly v. City of Harrisburg, (Sup. Ct., filed 1...
Monday, June 26, 2023

3 Courts Rule on Claims for Religious Exemptions from Covid Vaccine Mandates

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Last week, federal district courts in three states handed down decisions in cases in which a former employee was suing his or her employer f...
Friday, June 09, 2023

3rd Circuit Hears Oral Arguments In Abortion Clinic Buffer Zone Challenge

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The U.S. 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday heard oral arguments in Reilly v. City of Harrisburg ( audio of full oral arguments ). In th...