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Friday, June 27, 2025

Supreme Court: Medicaid Recipients Cannot Sue Under Sec. 1983 To Challenge State Cutoff of Medicaid Funds to Planned Parenthood

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In Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic , (Sup. Ct., June 26, 2025), the U.S. Supreme Court held that Medicaid recipients cannot sue ...
Wednesday, June 25, 2025

DOJ Intervenes In Challenge To Washington Law Removing Clergy Privilege

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The Department of Justice on Monday filed a Complaint in Intervention ( full text ) in Etienne v. Ferguson,  (WD WA, filed 6/23/ 2025) to be...

Texas Enacts Requirement That Schools Offer Released-Time Programs

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On June 20, Texas Governor Gregg Abbott signed  SB 1049 ( full text ) which requires all public and charter schools to permit students to at...
Tuesday, June 24, 2025

Challenge To Narrow Religious Exemption in Maryland Employment Law Is Dismissed In Part

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In General Conference of Seventh-Day Adventists v. Horton ,  (D MD, June 18, 2025), a Maryland federal district court denied a preliminary i...
Monday, June 23, 2025

Certiorari Granted in RLUIPA Damages Case

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The U.S. Supreme Court today granted review in Landor v. Louisiana Department of Corrections,  (Docket No. 23-1197, certiorari granted 6/23/...

Recent Articles of Interest

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 From SSRN: Agustin V. Startari, Algorithmic Obedience: How Language Models Simulate Command Structure , (June 06, 2025). Nicolin Decker, T...

Texas Enacts Law Requiring Ten Commandments In Every Classroom

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The Texas legislature has passed, and on June 20 Governor Gregg Abbott signed , SB10 ( full text ) which requires that: a public elementary ...
Sunday, June 22, 2025

5th Circuit Upholds Preliminary Injunction Against Louisiana's 10 Commandments In Classrooms Law

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In Roake v. Brumley ,  (5th Cir., June 20, 2025), the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a district court's grant  of a prelimin...
Friday, June 20, 2025

In Britain, Commons Passes Bill Removing Prosecution of Women for Their Own Abortion; Extending Time Sue for Child Sex Abuse

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On June 18, Britain's House of Commons by a vote of 312-95  passed and sent to the House of Lords the Crime and Policing Bill . Among th...
Thursday, June 19, 2025

Recent Articles of Interest

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From SSRN: Corinna Lain, Secrets of the Killing State: the Untold Story of Lethal Injection (Epilogue) , (September 01, 2024). Max Kuhelj B...
Wednesday, June 18, 2025

Supreme Court Upholds Tennessee's Ban on Gender Affirming Care for Minors

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In United States v. Skrmetti , (Sup.Ct., June 18, 2025), the U.S. Supreme Court today by a vote of 6-3 upheld Tennessee's law that bars ...

Religious Liberty Commission Holds First Hearing

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On June 16, the new Justice Department Religious Liberty Commission held it first hearing at the Museum of the Bible in Washington, DC. Vide...

California May Proceed With False Advertising Charges Against Abortion Pill Reversal Promoters

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In Culture of Life Family Services, Inc. v. Bonta ,  (SD CA, June 13, 2025), a California federal district court refused to enter a prelimin...
Monday, June 16, 2025

Cert. Granted In Litigation Over Investigatory Demands

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The U.S Supreme Court today granted review in  First Choice Women's Resource v. Platkin , (Docket No. 24-781, certiorari granted 6/16/2...

Supreme Court GVR's Battle Over Health Insurance Abortion Coverage

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In Roman Catholic Diocese v. Harris , (Sup. Ct., June 16, 2025), the U.S. Supreme Court granted certiorari, vacated the judgment of New York...

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 ...
Friday, June 13, 2025

Court Denies TRO In Challenge To Trump's Executive Orders on Antisemitism

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In  McClanahan v. Trump , (WD MO, June 9, 2025), a Missouri federal district court refused to grant a temporary restraining order in a chall...
Thursday, June 12, 2025

Supreme Court Review Sought In High School Football Game Prayer Dispute

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A petition for certiorari ( full text ) was filed with the U.S.Supreme Court last week in  Cambridge Christian School, Inc. v. Florida High ...
Wednesday, June 11, 2025

DOJ Sues California Coffee House for Discriminating Against Jewish Customers

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On Monday, the Justice Department filed suit in a California federal district court against an Oakland, California coffee house alleging vio...
Tuesday, June 10, 2025

Iowa Enacts Law Allowing Released-Time Religious Instruction in Schools

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On June 6, Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds signed  a bill that gives students in public and accredited nonpublic schools the right to attend up ...
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