"The Supreme Court has recently confirmed that the Free Exercise Clause does not prohibit a state from providing 'a strictly secular education in its public schools'"—and, the court held, that extends to California charter schools and their parental "home-based direct instruction approved by the school and coordinated, evaluated, and supervised by state-certified teachers."
So the Second Circuit held today, concluding that the facts surrounding this particular exclusion showed hostility to religion, and not just the neutral application of generally applicable rules.
The Supreme Court will hear Landor v. Louisiana Department of Corrections and Public Safety this fall.
Over the past two decades, scores of business owners across the nation have sought to refuse services for same-sex weddings, an SMU Law School study finds
The mayor abandoned the plan after it aroused strong political resistance and threats of litigation.
St. Catherine’s Monastery has been continuously inhabited for over 1,500 years. An Egyptian court ruling ended the monastery's longstanding separation from the government.
"How do Defendant's letters interfere with Plaintiffs' authority or ability to administer Oklahoma's public schools?"
Courts don't need to stretch the ministerial exception to cover every case.
Does the First Amendment freedom of expressive association protect religious hiring?
Does the church-autonomy doctrine extend to hiring decisions outside the ministerial exception?
A textualist solution to controversies over religious hiring.
An important church–state question likely headed to the Supreme Court.
After a public outcry, the scheduled vote on the plan to use eminent domain has been postponed indefinitely. If the Town of Toms River does try to condemn the church, there is likely to be a major legal battle.
The Third Circuit held that such organizations may raise religious exemption claims, though it declined to decide (at this stage of the litigation) whether the claim would prevail on the facts of this case.
"including Plaintiff's divorce proceedings and criminal case."
They face severe persecution if deported to Iran.
"If H.B. 71 goes into effect, Students will be subjected to unwelcome displays of the Ten Commandments for the entirety of their public school education. There is no opt-out option," the court's opinion reads.
A religious group using psilocybin mushrooms in ceremonies "put the State of Utah's commitment to religious freedom to the test," a federal judge wrote.
The Antisemitism Awareness Act threatens the First Amendment by empowering federal bureaucrats to police political and religious expression.
Olympus Spa had sued on First Amendment grounds.
The deadlocked court doesn't provide much clarity to sticky questions about the limits of religious freedom.
A Supreme Court case about religious parents' rights underscores a deeper problem: Without choice, public schools become a culture war battleground with no exit.
"This Court should not announce an opt-out right for religious objectors under the Free Exercise Clause that its precedents would foreclose for students objecting to public-school curricula under the Free Speech Clause."
The Court will weigh religious opt-outs and charter school discrimination. But true educational freedom means funding students, not systems.
can go forward in part, a federal trial judge concludes.
The ruling by U.S. District Judge Jill Parrish emphasizes that religious freedom must protect "unpopular or unfamiliar religious groups" as well as "popular or familiar ones."
The message that public officials are required to follow the law, even if they disagree with it, does not seem to have gotten through.
A highly significant grant of certiorari for next term.
