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 [...]
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 U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear an appeal by a Christian student organization that says a San Fransisco public law school violated its rights by denying it recognition because it holds on to Christian principles.
The justices today said they will decide next year to whether University of California’s Hastings College of Law is infringing the [...]
The 3rd Circuit has ruled that a New Jersey school district can ban “celebratory religious music at school-sponsored events” without running afoul of the First Amendment.
The father of two students in the South Orange-Maplewood School District, Michael Stratechuk, sued the district over its policy against religious-themed Christmas carols being performed at a holiday concert. Stratechuk said the [...]
A federal court approved a temporary consent order that grants a middle school student in Pennsylvania “to wear his ‘Abortion is not Healthcare’ t-shirt, and other pro-life and/or religious t-shirts,” to school.
On Sept. 8, the day of President Obama’s public video address to students across the country, a student at Crossroads Middle School of the [...]
Retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor will be sitting in for two days on the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. One of the cases she will be hearing involves an Arizona State University right-to-life group.
O’Connor will be part of a that will the case, ASU Students for Life v. Crow, which will be held [...]
The American Civil Liberties Union issued a report Thursday saying Bibles distributed in some Texas public schools were used to harass and hurt several students and even encouraged drug use, thus reminding the public schools of the reason why the Bible should not be there in the first place.
The “Distribution of Gideons Bibles in [...]