A New York federal judge said Congress’ move to cut funding to the activist and controversial group ACORN, is unconstitutional.
In a written ruling Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Nina Gershon said ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) was punished by Congress without the enactment of administrative processes to decide if money had been handled [...]
An Amicus Brief was filed in the U.S. Supreme Court Thursday seeking the court to protect the privacy rights of individuals who want to repeal a law that gives all the privileges of marriage to same-sex partners in Washington State.
Liberty Counsel, a “nonprofit litigation, education and policy organization,” filed the brief seeking the court to [...]
Attorneys with the Alliance Defense Fund filed an appeal Wednesday regarding a court decision that restricts a North Carolina county from opening public meetings with prayers calling on the name of a deity.
In the case, Joyner v. Forsyth County, federal judge James A. Beaty ruled on January 28 that Forsyth County’s invocation policy is unconstitutional. [...]
For nearly a decade, the American Civil Liberties Union has been trying to silence an Ohio judge from expressing his legal philosophy.
The ACLU finds it wrong that Common Pleas Judge James DeWeese of Ohio display a small poster that compares moral absolutes with moral relativism.
Judge DeWeese’s poster has on the left hand side the Ten [...]
The California Court of Appeal is considering the constitutionality of a shopping mall’s attempt to prevent adult patrons from talking to each other about topics such as religion and politics.
Matthew Snatchko, a youth pastor, struck up a casual conversation with two other shoppers at the Roseville Galleria Mall in 2006. Although had first obtained the [...]
The San Francisco Chronicle published an interesting article on Sunday that read:
The biggest open secret in the landmark trial over same-sex marriage being heard in San Francisco is that the federal judge who will decide the case, Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker, is himself gay.
He has “never taken pains to disguise – or advertise [...]
Five men filed a lawsuit against the city of Richmond, Virginia after being threatened with arrest for sharing their faith on public property and at public events.
The suit, Craft v. City of Richmond, alleges that police officers with the city violated the men’s First Amendment rights by demanding that they stop their “disturbing” and “offending” religious expression, which [...]
The dean of California’s Chapman University School of Law says he is stepping down to seek the Republican nomination for state Attorney General.
To date, only one candidate, state Sen. Tom Harman is seeking the GOP nomination to succeed Democrat Jerry Brown, as the Golden State’s chief legal officer.
John Eastman, who teaches Constitutional Law, Property, Legal [...]
In the divided, conservative-vs-liberal lines, the 5-4 Supreme Court ruling on Wednesday stayed its temporary ruling it granted on Monday, just an hour before the trial began, that prohibits the broadcasting of video and audio of the federal trial on California’s ban on same-sex marriage.
U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker, who is presiding over the trial [...]
The U.S. Supreme Court, acting on an appeal from conservative supporters of Prop 8, overruled a federal judge in San Francisco today and blocked video coverage of the trial on YouTube.
In November 2008, more than 7 million Californians approved a ballot measure banning same-sex marriage and voted in favor of the constitutional amendment which defines [...]
