Showing posts with label RFRA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label RFRA. Show all posts
Thursday, October 31, 2024

2nd Circuit: FBI Agents Had Qualified Immunity From RFRA Damages When Muslim Plaintiffs' Religious Objections Were Undisclosed

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In Tanvir v. Tanzin ,  (2d Cir., Oct. 29, 2024), the U.S. 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed on qualified immunity grounds a case in whi...
Tuesday, October 08, 2024

Texas Judicial Conduct Commission Withdraws Reprimand of Judge Who Refused to Perform Same-Sex Weddings

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As previously reported , in 2019 the Texas State Commission on Judicial Conduct issued a Public Warning to Justice of the Peace Dianne Hensl...
Tuesday, September 24, 2024

State RFRA Bars Taxpayer Suit Challenging Church's Property Tax Exemption

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 In In re Calvary Chapel Iowa ,  (IA Adm. Hearings Div., Sept. 17, 2024), an Iowa Administrative Law Judge held that the state's Religio...
Friday, September 13, 2024

Tribe Seeks Supreme Court Review of Transfer of Sacred Site to Mining Company

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A petition for certiorari ( full text ) was filed this week with the U.S. Supreme Court in Apache Stronghold v. United States,  (Sup. Ct., f...
Tuesday, August 06, 2024

Connecticut Supreme Court: Constitutional (But Not Statutory) Challenges to Removal of School Vaccination Religious Exemptions Barred by Sovereign Immunity

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In Spillane v. Lamont ,  (CT Sup. Ct., July 30, 2024), the Connecticut Supreme Court in a complicated opinion held that the doctrine of sove...
Sunday, July 21, 2024

Religious College Loses RFRA Challenge to SBA's Loan Forgiveness Rules

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 In Gordon College v. U.S. Small Business Administration ,  (D DC, July 18, 2024), the D.C. federal district court dismissed claims by a rel...
Friday, July 12, 2024

School's Exclusion of Fellowship of Christian Athletes Violates RFRA and 1st Amendment

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 In Fellowship of Christian Athletes v. District of Columbia ,  (D DC, July 11, 2024), a D.C. federal district court issued a preliminary in...
Monday, July 01, 2024

Jewish Women Lack Standing in Religious Freedom Challenge to Kentucky Abortion Restrictions

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In Sobel v. Cameron ,  (KY Cir. Ct., June 28, 2024), plaintiffs, three Jewish women, alleged, among other things, that the lack of exception...
Tuesday, June 25, 2024

Certiorari Denied In Religious Broadcasters Challenge to Royalty Rates

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The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday denied review in  National Religious Broadcasters Noncommercial Music License Committee v. Copyright Royalt...
Sunday, June 23, 2024

DC Circuit: No Tax-Exempt Status for Church Promoting Psychedelics Unless It Has Received DEA or Judicial Exemption

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In Iowaska Church of Healing v. Werfel ,  (DC Cir., June 21, 2024), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upheld th...
Tuesday, June 04, 2024

GAO Says DEA Should Improve Its Process for Granting Religious Exemptions for Psilocybin Use

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Last Week, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released  an 80-page Report to Congressional Committees ( full text ) titled DEA Shoul...
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, May 20, 2024

Civil Rights Commission Holds Briefing on Prisoners' Religious Freedom

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Last Friday, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights held a lengthy hearing on The Federal Role in Enforcing Religious Freedom in Prisons. A vid...
Wednesday, April 17, 2024

5th Circuit Denies Further Relief to Native American Church Objecting to Park Modifications

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As previously reported , last year a Texas federal district court held that members of the Lipam-Apache Native American Church should be giv...
Tuesday, April 16, 2024

Apaches Seek Review of Their RFRA Claim by 29-Judge Panel

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As previously reported , last month the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals sitting en banc , by a vote of 6-5, refused to enjoin the governme...
Saturday, April 06, 2024

Religiously Motivated Aid for Drug Abusers Not Protected by RFRA or 1st Amendment

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In United States v. Safehouse ,  (ED PA, April 3, 2024), a Pennsylvania federal district court held that neither the Religious Freedom Resto...
Wednesday, April 03, 2024

Iowa Enacts Religious Freedom Restoration Act

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Yesterday Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds signed SF 2095, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. ( Governor's press release .) ( Full text of...
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 ...
Monday, March 04, 2024

9th Circuit En Banc Refuses to Bar U.S. Transfer of Sacred Apache Site to Copper Mining Company

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In Apache Stronghold v. United States ,  (9th Cir., March 1, 2024), the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals sitting en banc, by a vote of 6-5,...
Tuesday, February 27, 2024

Cert. Filed In Religious Broadcasters' Appeal of Mandatory Royalty Rates

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 A petition for certiorari ( full text ) was filed last week with the U.S. Supreme Court in National Religious Broadcasters Noncommercial Mu...