Religion Clause

 A petition for certiorari  ( full text ) was filed yesterday with the U.S. Supreme Court in E.D. v. Noblesville School District, (Sup. Ct.,...

 In Polk v. Montgomery County Public Schools ,  (4th Cir., Jan. 28, 2026), the U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals, in a 2-1 decision, affirme...

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton yesterday filed a civil lawsuit against a Delaware-based nurse practitioner whose telehealth service calle...

Last week, the Christian advocacy organization Open Doors  released its report World Watch List 2026   which assesses the persecution of Chr...

Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the 81st anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau. The White House today posted...

Yesterday, a Florida church filed an emergency motion with a Florida state trial court asking it to stay a temporary injunction that it issu...

Last Thursday, the U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals heard oral arguments ( audio and transcript of full oral arguments ) in Anash, Inc. v...

From SSRN: Lael Daniel Weinberger & Branton Nestor, Church Autonomy and Interlocutory Appeals , (January 14, 2026). Michael A. Helfand,...

On Thursday, the National Institute of Health announced ( press release ) that it will no longer fund research involving human fetal tissue ...

On January 21, the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights sent a Notice of Violation ( full text ) to the state of I...

In Hamann v. City of Carbondale, Illinois ,  (SD IL, Jan. 21, 2026), an Illinois federal district court refused to preliminarily enjoin the ...

Speaking to the press on Wednesday, Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin confirmed that Pope Leo XIV has been invited by Presi...

 Australian Broadcasting Corp. reported  this week that in the Southern Pacific island nation of Samoa, with a population of 220,000, religi...

The U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday, sitting en banc,  heard oral arguments in two cases raising the question of the constitutio...

The U.S. Supreme Court today denied review in Agudas Chasidei Chabad v. Russian Federation,  (Sup. Ct., Docket No. 24-909,  certiorari denie...

Media in Britain, the U.S. and Israel are reporting that the U.S. State Department is considering offering asylum to British Jews because of...

From SSRN: L. Joe Dunman, Religion in the Law: An Open Access Casebook (2d Ed.) , (January 04, 2026). Richard Yuan, Reverse-Hostage Strateg...

Last Friday, Becket released the 7th edition of its Religious Freedom Index reflecting a poll of 1002 respondents surveyed between Sept. 29 ...

Today is National Religious Freedom Day, the 240th anniversary of the adoption of the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom by the Commonw...

In Smith v. Pugh ,  (7th Cir., Jan, 15, 2026), the U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals held that a Muslim inmate's rights under the Religi...