"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.
Some thoughts from Michael McConnell, Douglas Laycock, Stephanie Barclay, and Mark Storslee.
in prosecution for bomb hoax at church; but spray-painting "the stupid Jew" in the storage locker isn't relevant enough, and thus isn't admissible. (Both the painted items were in defendant's native Kurdish.)
In granting Mahmoud v. Taylor, the Supreme Court has agreed to consider this question.
can proceed (under the First Amendment and under parental constitutional rights law), the court says, though there's no actual decision on whether the plaintiffs (parents and teachers) will prevail.
December certiorari grants on standing and religion are early holiday gifts for Court watchers.
"Plaintiff's allegations are emotionally and politically charged, and ... Plaintiff is a member of certain groups subject to discrimination. That, however, is true of a plethora of cases in the federal courts and has generally not been understood to authorize anonymous pleading."
British law allows local governments to enact absurdly censorious orders limiting "anti-social" behavior.
Plaintiff had argued that defendants' publicizing the religious court's statement "serves as a form of social pressure, calling on the community to shun or ostracize the individual until they comply with the court's demands."
The court concludes that the government may institute such an exemption, though doesn't decide whether it must do so.
Overzealous school administrators should think about students' privacy rights.
Nativity scene was allegedly excluded (ostensibly on COVID grounds) while a menorah lighting was allowed.
[UPDATE 8/23/24: UCLA has just dropped the appeal.]
If participants in unauthorized encampments exclude Jewish or pro-Israel students from walking in parts of campus, UCLA would then have to close those parts to everyone.
the state had allowed other organizations to get grants despite their discriminating based on race and sex—so suggests the Ninth Circuit in a recent decision granting an injunction pending appeal.
Notre Dame law Prof. Patrick Reidy argues that religious organizations are entitled to faith-based exemptions from zoning restrictions preventing them from building affordable housing on their land.
There is a growing movement to let churches and other religious organizations build housing on their property that would otherwise be banned by zoning regulations.
So says a federal appellate court, applying federal employment law, which requires employers to exempt religious objectors even from generally applicable job rules, unless exemption would impose an "undue hardship" on the employer.
The Institute for Justice has launched a project to reform land use regulation.
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