Monday, May 25, 2026

President Issues Message on Pentecost

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 Yesterday, the White House posted a "Presidential Message on Pentecost" ( full text ). It reads in part: Melania and I join many ...

President's Memorial Day Proclamation

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President Trump last week issued a Proclamation ( full text ) declaring today as Memorial Day, saying in part: ... All Americans inherit the...

Challenge To Tennessee's Requirement That Charter Schools Be Non-Sectarian Moves Ahead

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Wilberforce Academy of Knoxville v. Knox County Board of Education ,  (ED TN, May 22, 2026), is the latest court challenge to state laws tha...
Sunday, May 24, 2026

New York City Moves to Protect Residents From Hajj and Umrah Related Fraud

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On May 20, New York City Council passed legislation designed to help New Yorkers recognize fraudulent Hajj and Umrah -related promotions. Th...
Thursday, May 21, 2026

Ministerial Exception Is No Defense to Child Labor Trafficking Claims

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In Zan Sun v. Shen Yun Performing Arts, Inc. ,  (SD NY, May 18, 2026), a New York federal district court held that the ministerial exception...

Suit In Utah Challenges IVF Disposal of Non-Implanted Embryos

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Suit was filed late last month in a Utah state trial court against seven fertility clinics challenging the methods they use in IVF procedure...

Limited Discovery Allowed to Determine If Case Turns on a Religious Question

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In Gaskins v. McLean Bible Church ,  (VA Ct. App., May 19, 2026), a Virginia state appellate court allowed dissident members of a non-denomi...

Washington Foster Care Licensing Agency Modifies Rules in Settlement of Litigation

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 As previously reported , in DeGross v. Hunter , (WD WA, April 22, 2026), a Washington federal district court refused to dismiss free speech...
Wednesday, May 20, 2026

Kars4Kids Violated False Advertising and Unfair Competition Laws by Not Disclosing Its Religious Ties

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In Puterbaugh v. Kars4Kids, LLC ,  (CA Super. Ct., May 8, 2026), a California state trial court held that Kars4Kids violated California'...

California Court Hears Arguments in Defamation Suit Against Jews for Jesus

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On May 15, the California state Court of Appeals, First Appellate District heard oral arguments in Amitay v. Jews for Jesus  ( video of full...
Tuesday, May 19, 2026

HHS Reorganizes Civil Rights Office to Emphasize Religious Liberty, Conscience Protections and Racial Discrimination

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The Department of Health and Human Services yesterday announced a restructuring of its Office of Civil Rights into three subject-matter Divi...

Germany Ends 30 Years of Surveillance of Church of Scientology

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As reported by Bitter Winter  and by a press release from the Church of Scientology, Germany's Office for the Protection of the Constit...

Adversarial Questioning of Employees Claiming Religious Accommodations Violated Title VII

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In Matilde M. v. Burgum ,  (EEOC Federal Sector, May 15, 2026), the EEOC in an appeal from a finding by the Bureau of Indian Education, held...
Monday, May 18, 2026

Certiorari Denied In Christian Day Care's Challenge to California's Licensing Requirements

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The U.S. Supreme Court today denied review in  Foothills Ministries v. Johnson,  (Docket No. 25-802,  certiorari  denied 5/18/2026) ( Order ...

"Rededicate 250" Held on National Mall Yesterday

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Crowds of people gathered yesterday on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. for  Rededicate 250: A National Jubilee of Prayer, Praise &...

South Carolina Enacts Student Physical Privacy Act

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Last Friday, South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster signed into law H4756, the South Carolina Student Physical Privacy Act ( full text ). Th...

Recent Articles of Interest

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From SSRN: Yaoharee Lahtee, Marginal Hegemony in Thailand: Satire, the Muslim Minority, and the Politics of Power-literate Critique , (May ...
Sunday, May 17, 2026

Presidential Message on the Feast of the Ascension

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Last Thursday, the White House posted a Presidential Message on the Feast of the Ascension ( full text ). The Message said in part: Forty d...

Texas and DOJ Settle With Texas Hospital Ending Its Gender Transition Services and Creating Detransition Clinic

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Last Friday, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and the U.S. Department of Justice announced an unusual settlement agreement with Texas Child...