The AG's opinion applies strict scrutiny under the First Amendment and the Kentucky Religious Freedom Restoration Act, and concludes that the medical evidence suggests total shutdowns aren't necessary to preserve public health.
The First Amendment protects "'anti-Israeli, anti-Zionist, [and] antisemitic" speech, the court correctly observes.
The case was filed against the Maricopa County Community College District, over Prof. Nicholas Damask's World Politics class.
The presumptive Democratic vice presidential nominee offers a highly circumscribed notion of the role of faith in public life.
'Political correctness has grown to become the unhappiest religion in the world.'
Is the Kanye 2020 platform designed to steal votes from Joe Biden?
That's what an Eleventh Circuit opinion seems to suggest, in a case where a Trinidadian Muslim plaintiff said she "come[s] from a strict Muslim household where under [their] cultural beliefs and traditions such a sexual assault would have the tendency to bring shame and humiliation upon [her] family."
The former New York Times SCOTUS reporter does not seem to understand the arguments she is criticizing.
The dissenting Justices stress that casinos and other establishments are subject to more lenient limits.
The hip-hop star's wild, disjointed presentation offers both red meat and poison for right, left, and libertarian.
Plus: Biden echoes Trump on trade, tech ties to cops revealed, and more...
On the penultimate day of the October 2019 term, the Supreme Court expands the ministerial exception and upholds exemptions to the contraception coverage mandate.
The paper's claim reflects the same arbitrary distinction between religious and secular activities that churches are challenging in court.
SCOTUS rules 7-2 in Our Lady of Guadalupe School v. Morrissey-Berru.
COVID-19 control measures violate the First Amendment when they arbitrarily favor secular conduct.
The decision is an important victory against government discrimination on the basis of religion.
America certainly has work to do on race, but ritual and symbolic acts aren't the way forward.
U.S. District Judge Gary Sharpe finds that the state's COVID-19 control measures arbitrarily discriminate against religious conduct.
"The City's argument that temporary selective enforcement of the challenged laws with respect to mass race protests is a matter of public safety ... would perhaps be legitimate but for Mayor de Blasio's simultaneous pro-protest/anti-religious gathering messages, which clearly undermine the legitimacy of the proffered reason for what seems to be a clear exemption, no matter the reason."
A charter school seeking contractors to provide art instruction can't exclude companies just because their web site has religious references.
Conservative legal commentator and experienced religious liberties litigator David French explains why.
The Equality Act would significantly expand government power and it also threatens religious freedom.
As SCOTUS declines to issue an injunction, the chief justice says the state's COVID-19 control measures seem consistent with the First Amendment.
The cap (25% of capacity or at most 100 people) also generally applies to secular gatherings, but not to various commercial establishments.
Supreme Court precedent suggests COVID-19 restrictions that discriminate against churches are presumptively unconstitutional.
They’re still not being treated the same as secular places of gathering, so a legal challenge continues.
I'd love to hear your thoughts about this draft brief.
A short majority opinion, and a long dissent.
If the Mall of America can reopen on June 1, why can’t the Cathedral of St. Paul?
Allowing schools and malls to reopen, but not places of worship, would raise civil rights issues
at least when they specifically target religious institutions, and not similar secular entities.
Can the Supreme Court draw the line?
While governments are shutting down religious services and fining pastors who defy those orders.
So a Maryland appellate court held last month, I think quite correctly (and consistently with the broad trend in other states):
The Obamacare contraception mandate continues to cause legal trouble.
The court concludes that it likely violates the Kentucky Religious Freedom Restoration Act and the Free Exercise Clause, chiefly because the Governor's order has many exceptions for various allowed services.
On the same day Brooklyn’s Hasidic Jews came out for a funeral, hundreds were gathering elsewhere in New York City to watch a military flyover.
While denying Donald Trump's dictatorial impulses, William Barr notes that public health emergencies do not give governments unlimited powers.
