Showing posts with label State constitutions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label State constitutions. Show all posts
Friday, October 17, 2025

Placing Patron Saint Statues on City Safety Building Is Enjoined

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In Fitzmaurice v. City of Quincy ,  (MA Super. Ct., Oct. 14, 2025), a Massachusetts state trial court issued a preliminary injunction barrin...

Diocese Has Vested Right in Statute of Limitations That Has Run in Suit by Abuse Victim

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In 2020, the New Hampshire legislature amended its statute of limitations by removing the limitation period for suits alleging sexual assaul...
Tuesday, September 16, 2025

Hawaii Supreme Court Interprets State Constitution's Establishment Clause

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In Hilo Bay Marina, LLC v. State of Hawai'i , (HI Sup. Ct., Sept. 12, 2025), the Hawaii Supreme Court held that the Hawaii state constit...
Friday, August 29, 2025

Pharmacists Sue for Religious Accommodation to Avoid Dispensing Gender-Affirming Drugs

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Two Walgreens pharmacists filed suit last week in a Minnesota federal district court challenging the drug chain's refusal to accommodate...
Friday, August 15, 2025

5th Circuit Allows San Antonio Park Development To Move Ahead Over Religious Objections of Lipan-Apache

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In Perez v. City of San Antonio ,  (5th Cir., Aug. 13, 2025), the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in a 2-1 decision affirmed a trial court...
Monday, June 30, 2025

Ohio's School Voucher Program Held to Violate State Constitution

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In Columbus City School District v. State of Ohio , (OH Com. Pl., June 224, 2025), an Ohio state trial court held that Ohio's school vou...
Monday, June 16, 2025

Texas Supreme Court Interprets Religious Services Clause of State Consitution

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As previously reported , in a suit by members of the Lipan Apache tribe challenging improvements to a park that destroyed  their ability to ...
Thursday, June 05, 2025

Washington Bishops Sue Challenging Expanded Child Abuse Reporting Law

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Last week, the Catholic bishops in Washington state filed suit challenging the constitutionality of a  recently adopted amendment to the sta...
Wednesday, May 28, 2025

Suit Challenges Display of Statues of Saints on Public Safety Building

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Suit was filed yesterday in a Massachusetts state trial court seeking to enjoin the city of Quincy and its mayor from installing statues of ...
Thursday, May 15, 2025

Michigan Court Invalidates 3 Abortion Restrictions

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In Northland Family Planning Center v. Nessel ,  (Ct. Cl., May 13, 2025), the Michigan Court of Claims held that three abortion restrictions...
Thursday, March 13, 2025

Petition Seeks to Stop Latest Effort to Get Bibles in Oklahoma School Classrooms

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 As previously reported , the Oklahoma Supreme Court has issued an order staying any work by the Oklahoma Office of Management and Enterpris...
Monday, February 03, 2025

North Carolina Supreme Court Upholds Window for Bringing Time-Barred Child Sex Abuse Claims That Were Not Previously Adjudicated

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The North Carolina Supreme Court last week decided four cases raising the constitutionality and reach of the SAFE Child Act . In McKinney v....
Thursday, January 30, 2025

Maine Supreme Court Invalidates Retroactive Removal of Limitation Period for Child Sex Abuse Claims

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In Dupuis v. Roman Catholic Bishop of Portland ,  (ME Sup. Ct., Jan. 28, 2025), Maine's Supreme Judicial Court, in a 4-2 decision, held ...
Tuesday, January 21, 2025

Suit Challenges Wisconsin Tax Exemption as Violation of State Constitution's Ban on Preference to Religious Establishments

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Suit was filed last week in a Wisconsin state trial court by the Freedom from Religion Foundation and three individual property owners chall...
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Suit Challenges State Grant to Catholic College

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Suit was filed this week in a West Virginia state trial court challenging a $5 million grant made by the West Virginia Water Development Aut...
Monday, December 23, 2024

Court Enjoins Most of Missouri's Abortion Restrictions, But Clinics Still Impeded from Reopening

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In Comprehensive Health of Planned Parenthood Great Plains v. State of Missouri ,  (Cir. Ct., Dec. 20, 2024), a Missouri state trial court i...
Friday, December 13, 2024

Christian Haven for Sex Trafficking Victims Sues to Receive Federal Funding

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Gracehaven, a Christian organization that cares for young survivors of sex trafficking, filed suit this week in an Ohio federal district cou...
Thursday, December 12, 2024

Texas Supreme Court Hears Arguments on Interpretation of "Religious Service Protections" Constitutional Amendment

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Last Wednesday, The Texas Supreme Court heard oral arguments ( video of full oral arguments ) in Perez v. City of San Antonio. The court is ...
Saturday, November 30, 2024

Missouri AG Issues Opinion on Which Abortion Restrictions Remain Enforceable After Reproductive Freedom Amendment

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Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey has issued Opinion Letter No. 22-2024 , (Nov. 22, 2024) outlining the extent to which the state'...
Friday, November 29, 2024

Denial of Historic Preservation Grants to Churches Violates 1st Amendment

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In The Mendham Methodist Church v. Morris County, New Jersey ,  (D NJ, Nov. 27, 2024), a New Jersey federal district court held that Rule 5....