Showing posts with label Alaska. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Alaska. Show all posts
Sunday, July 07, 2024

Two Additional Courts Enjoin Enforcement of New Title IX Rules

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In addition to the nationwide preliminary injunction against enforcement of the Department of Education's new Title IX rules on transgen...
Tuesday, July 02, 2024

Alaska Supreme Court Rejects Facial Challenge To Law Allowing State Reimbursement to Home Schoolers For Materials

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In State of Alaska, Department of Education & Early Development v. Alexander ,  (AK Sup. Ct., June 28, 2024), the Alaska Supreme Court r...
Thursday, February 23, 2023

Alaska Supreme Court Reverses Dismissal of Muslim Inmate's RLUIPA Claims

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In Din v. State of Alaska, Department of Corrections , (AK Sup. Ct., Feb. 22, 2023) the Alaska Supreme Court vacated a trial court's dis...
Thursday, March 10, 2022

Alaska Supreme Court Upholds Award Of Vaccination Decision-Making To Father Over Mother's Religious Objections

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 In  Lady Donna Dutchess v. Dutch , (AK, March 9, 2022), the Alaska Supreme Court upheld a trial court's decision awarding sole authorit...
Thursday, December 23, 2021

Faith-Based Homeless Shelter Denied Injunction Against Alaska City's Anti-Discrimination Laws

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In Downtown Soup Kitchen v. Municipality of Anchorage ,  (D AK, Dec. 20, 2021), an Alaska federal district court refused to grant injunctive...
Wednesday, July 07, 2021

Alaska Homeless Shelter Challenges City's Public Accommodation Law

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Last week, an Anchorage, Alaska women's homeless shelter filed suit in an Alaska federal district court contending that the city's r...
Tuesday, August 13, 2019

Homeless Shelters Excluded From City's Anti-Discrimination Ordinances

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In Downtown Soup Kitchen v. Municipality of Anchorage ,  (D AK, Aug. 9, 2019), an Alaska federal district court issued a preliminary injunct...
Sunday, April 14, 2019

Transgender Bathroom Issue In High School Leads To Protest and Reaction

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The ongoing issue in public schools of allowing transgender students to use bathrooms of their choice has now created issues of how to treat...
Wednesday, December 12, 2018

Evangelists Win Narrow Settlement Victory In Alaska Park Dispute

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According to KTUU News , a father-daughter evangelist team have won a narrow victory in the settlement of their lawsuit against the city of...
Wednesday, October 10, 2018

Alaska Borough's Invocation Policy Held Unconstitutional

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KBBI News reports that an Alaska state trial court judge yesterday in Hunt v. Kenai Peninsula Borough  ( complaint ) held that the Kenai Pe...
Friday, September 14, 2018

Alaska Christian Women's Shelter Challenges Requirement It Serve Transgender Women

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In Anchorage, Alaska, a Christian soup kitchen and women's shelter-- the Hope Center -- has filed a federal lawsuit against the Anchorag...
Tuesday, April 10, 2018

Anti-Transgender Bathroom Initiative Voted Down In Anchorage

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Anchorage Daily News reports that in Alaska's first-ever vote-by-mail election, a so-called "bathroom bill" initiative was de...
Wednesday, January 10, 2018

Suit Challenges Rules Against Proselytizing At Alaska Town Festival

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The Center for Religious Expression last week announced the filing of a federal lawsuit in Alaska challenging a rule at the Girdwood, Alask...
Thursday, March 31, 2016

Alaska Appeals Court: Reconsider Sex Offender's Bar On Taking His Children To Church

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In Binder v. State of Alaska ,  (AK, March 30, 2016), an Alaska appeals court remanded a case to the trial court to reconsider defendant'...
Saturday, January 09, 2016

Mother's Move To Eskimo Village Does Not Justify Reduction In Her Child Support Obligations

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In Sharpe v. Sharpe , (AK Sup. Ct., Jan. 8. 2016), the Alaska Supreme Court in a 3-2 decision upheld a trial court's denial of a mother&...
Thursday, October 01, 2015

Anchorage, Alaska Passes LGBT Anti-Discrimination Law Over Religious Objections

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Late Tuesday night, the Anchorage, Alaska Assembly by a vote of  9-2 enacted amendments to the city's equal rights ordinance barring dis...
Saturday, March 28, 2015

Alaska Free Exercise Clause Defense To Illegal Salmon Fishing Is Rejected

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In Phillip v. State of Alaska ,  (AK Ct. App., March 27, 2015), an Alaska court of appeals refused to dismiss criminal charges against 13 Yu...
Saturday, October 18, 2014

Avalanche of Same-Sex Marriage Legal Developments

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In the last several days there has been an avalanche of legal developments relating to same-sex marriages: Alaska :  Yesterday in Parnell ...
Monday, October 13, 2014

Same-Sex Marriage Developments In Kansas, West Virginia, Alaska

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Developments relating to same-sex marriages have been moving rapidly in Kansas.  Last Wednesday, Chief Judge Kevin Moriarty of the state'...
Tuesday, May 06, 2014

Alaska Supreme Court Holds Tax Exemption Unconstitutionally Discriminates Against Same-Sex Couples

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In State of Alaska v. Schmidt ,  (AK Sup. Ct., April 25, 2014), the Alaska Supreme Court held that a state tax exemption program that discri...