Showing posts with label RFRA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label RFRA. Show all posts
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...
Friday, February 16, 2024

Recission of Covid Mandate Did Not Totally Moot Navy SEALs' RFRA Challenge

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 In U.S. Navy SEALs 1-26 v. Austin ,  (ND TX, Feb. 14, 2024), a Texas federal district court held preliminarily that the rescission of the m...
Thursday, January 11, 2024

Church May Move Ahead with RFRA Challenge to Limits on Its Use of Ayahuasca

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In  Church of the Celestial Heart v. Garland , (ED CA, Jan. 9, 2023), a California federal magistrate judge refused to dismiss a suit under ...
Wednesday, December 20, 2023

11th Circuit: Appeal of DEA's Denial of Religious Exemption to Controlled Substances Act Must Be in Circuit Court

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In Soul Quest Chruch of Mother Earth, Inc. v. Attorney General ,  (11th Cir., Dec. 18, 2023), the U.S. 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, in a 2...
Tuesday, November 28, 2023

2nd Circuit: 1st Amendment Free Exercise Claim Requires Only "Burden", Not "Substantial Burden" On Religion

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In Kravitz v. Purcell ,  (2d Cir., Nov. 27, 2023), the U.S. 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals held that unlike suits under RFRA, an inmate allegi...
Wednesday, November 22, 2023

No Damages Under Illinois RFRA for Wedding Cancelled Over Covid Vaccine Mandate

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In Schneider v. City of Chicago ,  (ND IL, Nov. 20, 2023), an Illinois federal district court dismissed a damage action brought under the Il...
Friday, November 17, 2023

Church Sues Challenging Fee for Water Connection

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Suit was filed this week in a Texas state trial court by a church challenging a Houston-area utility district's insistence that the chur...
Thursday, November 16, 2023

Today Is 30th Anniversary of RFRA

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Today is the 30th anniversary of President Bill Clinton's signing of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act ( Public Law 103-141 ). In hi...
Wednesday, November 08, 2023

RFRA and Title VII Claims for Refusing Religious Exemption from Covid Vaccine Mandate Can Proceed

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In Snyder v. Chicago Transit Authority ,  (ND IL,  Nov. 6, 2023), an Illinois federal district court allowed plaintiff, who was denied a rel...
Friday, October 06, 2023

Reservist Challenges Military's Admonition of Him for His Remarks at Retirement Ceremony

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Suit was filed this week in a Texas federal district court by Jace Yarbrough, a Major in the Air Force Reserve, challenging a Letter of Admo...
Wednesday, September 27, 2023

Employees Failed to Show Sincere Religious Beliefs for Vaccine Exemptions

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In Gardner-Alfred v. Federal Reserve Bank of New York ,  (SD NY, Sept. 25, 2023), a New York federal district court dismissed RFRA, Title VI...
Wednesday, September 20, 2023

Denying Inmate Permission to Marry Was RFRA Violation

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In Davis v. Wigen ,  (3d Cir., Sept. 19, 2023), the U.S. 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a district court's dismissal of a RFRA cl...
Tuesday, September 19, 2023

Suit Challenges Federal Terrorist Watchlist

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Suit was filed yesterday in a Massachusetts federal district court challenging the federal government's terrorist watchlist system.  In ...
Monday, July 24, 2023

Court Upholds Procedure for Obtaining Immigrant Religious Worker Classification

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In Society of the Divine Word v. U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services ,  (ND IL, July 20, 2023), an Illinois federal district court r...