Charter Day School in Leland, NC The University of Notre Dame Law School’s Religious Liberty Clinic, along with the Jewish Coalition for Religious Liberty and the Islam and Religious Freedom Action Team of the Religious Freedom Institute, filed an amicus brief in support of Charter Day School in Brunswick County, North Carolina — a case which could be taken up by the U.S. Supreme Court. The case, Charter Day School v. Peltier, involves an N.C. charter school that was sued by the parent of a student over the school’s policy requiring skirts as part of the school uniform. The 4th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the charter school is a “state actor” and that this type of dress code was not enforceable by a state actor. Carolina Journal spoke with John Meiser, the supervising attorney for Notre Dame’s clinic, which is part of their law school, about their decision to weigh in on the case. The clinic enables law students to work on cases advancing the free exercise of religion in the United States. Meiser said that their desire to see the 4th Circuit’s opinion overruled does not have anything to do specifically with a right to impose […]
