Religion Clause

In  Caractor v. City of New York Department of Homeless Services , (SD NY, June  14, 2013), a New York federal district court rejected free ...

The Obama Administration yesterday, at a White House event hosted by Vice President Biden,  released   a progress report on executive action...

As previously reported , a challenge to the Affordable Care Act contraceptive coverage mandate by religiously-sponsored Geneva College is p...

In State of Wisconsin v. Betters ,  (WI App., June 18, 2013), a Wisconsin state appeals court rejected defendant's claim that a trial co...

A federal lawsuit was filed yesterday challenging the constitutionality of the New York Police Department's surveillance program directe...

Yesterday President Obama sent to the United States Senate the nomination of Kenneth Francis Hackett to be U.S. Ambassador to the Vatican. (...

In a case on remand from a federal district court (see prior posting ), a hearing officer in the Department of Agriculture's National Ap...

In Duncan v. State of New Hampshire ,  (NH Super. Ct., June 17, 2013), a New Hampshire trial court judge in a precedent-setting 45-page opin...

The press in Ireland reports on the financial woes of Victory Christian Fellowship, a church which, according to the Sunday World , took 10%...

Courts in Egypt apparently continue to vigorously enforce Egyptian laws barring contempt of religion, reflecting Article 44 of Egypt's C...

From SSRN: Vivian Grosswald Curran, Book Review: Gilles Cuniberti, Grands Systèmes De Droit Contemporains (2d ed., L.G.D.J., 2011) ,  (Ame...

Sikh Wire reports that on Friday, a New York state trial court judge lifted the ban he had imposed in May 2010 on the carrying ban of the  ...

In  Mansfield v. Missouri Department of Corrections , (8th Cir., June 10, 2013), the 8th Circuit held that prison official's compelling ...

As previously reporte d, on June 4 a misconduct complaint was filed against Judge Edith Jones, based in part on comments she made regarding ...

Prison authorities in Florida are facing an unusual religious accommodation question.   WEAR News yesterday reported that inmate Pablo Diaz...

As previously reported , last month the Central Florida Freethought Community made materials on Atheism available to students in eleven Ora...

Yesterday, the Subcommittee on National Security of the U.S. House Oversight & Government Reform Committee held a hearing titled "E...

According to CNet News  and JTA , in France yesterday the Paris Court of Appeal upheld a lower court order requiring Twitter to turn over t...

During its annual meeting yesterday, the Southern Baptist Convention adopted a lengthy resolution expressing the denomination's "co...

According to Reuters , a Philadelphia Municipal Court judge yesterday ruled that the murder and involuntary manslaughter case against Herber...

In Freedom From Religion Foundation, Inc. v. Brewer ,  (AZ App., June 11, 2013), an Arizona state Court of Appeals held that a group of Mari...

In Cressman v. Thompson , (10th Cir., June 11, 2013), the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals held that plaintiff states a plausible First Am...

In Israel, government-appointed judges of rabbinical courts have jurisdiction over issues of Jewish marriage and divorce in the country.  Th...

In Protestant Episcopal Church In The Diocese Of South Carolina v. The Episcopal Church , (D SC, June 10, 2013), a South Carolina federal di...

In Cherri v. Mueller ,  (ED MI, June 11, 2013), a Michigan federal district court permitted four Muslim-Americans to proceed with their suit...

Yesterday in Russia, the Duma-- the lower house of Russia's Parliament-- passed two bill of interest. The first is a ban on publicly ins...