Showing posts with label Texas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Texas. Show all posts
Monday, December 08, 2025

Texas Sues Promoters of Development Aimed at Muslim Home Buyers

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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced last week that he has filed suit in a Texas state trial court against the East Plano Islamic Ce...
Wednesday, December 03, 2025

Class Action Filed Challenging Texas Law Requiring 10 Commandments in All Classrooms

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 A class action lawsuit was filed yesterday in a Texas federal district court challenging the recently enacted Texas statute that requires t...
Wednesday, November 26, 2025

Texas AG Sues State Agency for Excluding Sectarian Use of Homelessness Funds

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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced  on Monday he has filed suit against the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs chall...
Friday, November 21, 2025

CAIR Sues Texas Governor

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As previously reported , earlier this week Texas governor Greg Abbott issued a Proclamation designating CAIR as a Foreign Terrorist and Tran...
Wednesday, November 19, 2025

Texas Governor Declares CAIR Foreign Terrorist and Transnational Criminal Organization

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Texas Governor Greg Abbott yesterday issued a Proclamation ( full text ) designating the Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR as Foreign Terrorist an...

Court Enjoins School Districts from Complying with Texas Mandate to Post 10 Commandments in Classrooms

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In Cribbs Ringer v. Comal Independent School District , (WD TX, Nov. 18, 2025), a Texas federal district court issued a preliminary injuncti...
Tuesday, November 18, 2025

Texas AG Sues Challenging Exclusion of Sectarian Employment from Work-Study and Similar State Programs

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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton last week filed suit in a Texas state trial court against the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board an...
Wednesday, November 12, 2025

Religious Based Proxy Advisors Challenge New Texas Regulatory Law

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Texas S.B.2337  enacted by the Texas legislature earlier this year imposes new disclosure requirements on proxy advisory services that provi...
Tuesday, November 11, 2025

Texas AG Sues School District to Require Posting of 10 Commandments

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Last week, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed suit in a Texas state trial court against the Galveston School District and its board mem...
Wednesday, November 05, 2025

Texas Voters Approve Parental Rights Amendment

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Texas voters yesterday by a vote of 70% to 30%  adopted an amendment to the state Constitution providing: To enshrine truths that are deeply...
Thursday, October 30, 2025

Battle Over Congregations' Disaffiliations Dismissed on Ecclesiastical Abstention Grounds

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 In   United Methodist Rio Conference Board of Trustees v. Alice First Methodist Church ,  (TX App., Oct. 29, 2025), a Texas state appeals c...
Wednesday, October 29, 2025

Texas Judicial Conduct Rules Changed To Allow Judges To Refuse To Perform Same-Sex Marriages

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On Oct.24, the Texas Supreme Court added a Comment ( full text ) to Canon 4 of the Texas Code of Judical Conduct. The New Comment reads: It...
Friday, September 26, 2025

Court Refuses to Dismiss Case on Misappropriation of Tithed Funds Under Ecclesiastical Abstention Doctrine

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 In Leach v. Gateway Church ,  (ED TX, Sep. 17, 2025), a Texas federal district court refused to dismiss a class action suit on behalf of Ga...
Monday, September 22, 2025

Another Suit Challenges Texas' Law Requiring 10 Commandments in Classrooms

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On August 20 a Texas federal district court issued a preliminary injunction barring 11 Texas school districts from complying with Texas SB 1...
Sunday, September 21, 2025

Texas Governor Signs Ban on Mail-Order Abortion Drugs

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On Sept. 17, Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed House Bill 7 ( full text ), a complex 20-page law aimed at preventing the shipment from out-...
Thursday, September 04, 2025

Texas AG Urges Introducing the Lord's Prayer in Classrooms

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As previously reported , in May 2025 the Texas legislature passed Senate Bill 11 . The bill took effect on September 1. The new law creates ...
Tuesday, August 26, 2025

Texas AG Tells School Districts That Were Not Enjoined to Comply with Statute Ordering Posting of 10 Commandments In Classrooms

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As previously reported , on August 20 a Texas federal district court issued a preliminary injunction barring 11 Texas school districts from ...
Thursday, August 21, 2025

Court Enjoins Compliance with Texas Law Requiring Posting of 10 Commandments in Classrooms

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In Nathan v. Alamo Heights Independent School District ,  (WD TX, Aug. 20, 2025), a Texas federal district court in an unusual 55-page opini...
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...
Sunday, July 06, 2025

Secular Officiants Lack Standing to Bring Pre-Enforcement Challenge to Texas Law Barring Them from Performing Weddings

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McCutchan v. Nicholson ,  (ND TX, July 2, 2025), involves a challenge to the Texas statute that sets out who may conduct marriage ceremonies...