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Click here to view original article www.catholicnewsagency.com The Catholic bishops are backing a suit by Apache Stronghold, a coalition of Native Americans and their supporters, in its lawsuit against the federal government. The lawsuit argues that the coalition’s freedom of religion was violated when the federal government announced its intention…
Click here to view original article www.ncregister.com Religious liberty scholars from the Notre Dame Law School, Seton Hall University, and the University of St. Thomas School of Law also filed a brief backing the Native Americans. Numerous other religious groups also filed amicus briefs. The Catholic bishops are backing a…
Click here to view original article news.yahoo.com People stand in line to tour the Supreme Court of the United States in Washington, D.C., on Monday, when the court’s 2024-25 term started. Photo by Leigh Vogel/UPI Oct. 7 (UPI) — Native Americans trying to protect their sacred land, a Rastafarian prisoner…
Click here to view original article www.ncronline.org The U.S. Supreme Court building is pictured in Washington June 24. (OSV News/Reuters/Nathan Howard) The U.S. Supreme Court building is pictured in Washington June 24. (OSV News/Reuters/Nathan Howard) Staff Reporter View Author Profile Join the Conversation Send your thoughts to Letters to the…
Click here to view original article www.catholicnewsagency.com U.S. Supreme Court. | Credit: PT Hamilton/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Oct 8, 2024 / 17:30 pm A charter school in Oklahoma is aiming to be the first publicly-funded religious charter school in the United States after it appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court on…
Click here to view original article www.ncregister.com St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School petitioned the high court to review the decision on the basis of Supreme Court precedent and the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment. U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C. Kate Quiñones/CNA Education October 8,…
Click here to view original article www.upi.com Supreme Court justices, who have begun their new term. are: Seated from left are Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Clarence Thomas, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and Justices Samuel A. Alito and Elena Kagan. Standing from left are Justices Amy Coney Barrett, Neil M.…
Click here to view original article www.star-telegram.com An event at Mansfield Lake Ridge prompted questions of legality and the issue of the separation of church and state. Getty Images | Royalty Free Getty Images/iStockphoto In Reality Check stories, Star-Telegram journalists dig deeper into questions over facts, consequences and accountability. Read…
Click here to view original article news.yahoo.com A federal appeals court has ruled a pair of lawsuits against Michigan’s anti-discrimination law filed by groups claiming it infringes on their religious liberties can continue, reversing a decision made last year by a lower court to dismiss the lawsuits. In a 37-page…
Click here to view original article www.usatoday.com A federal appeals court has ruled a pair of lawsuits against Michigan’s anti-discrimination law filed by groups claiming it infringes on their religious liberties can continue, reversing a decision made last year by a lower court to dismiss the lawsuits. In a 37-page…
Click here to view original article www.baltimoresun.com A group of New York nuns are urging the U.S. Supreme Court to block New York regulation requiring faith-based organizations to cover abortions in their employee health insurance plans. In a filing Tuesday, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York joined a coalition…
Click here to view original article justthenews.com (The Center Square) – (The Center Square) — A group of New York nuns are urging the U.S. Supreme Court to block New York regulation requiring faith-based organizations to cover abortions in their employee health insurance plans. In a filing Tuesday, the Roman…
Click here to view original article www.thecentersquare.com St. Patrick’s Cathedral (New York, N.Y.) (The Center Square) — A group of New York nuns are urging the U.S. Supreme Court to block New York regulation requiring faith-based organizations to cover abortions in their employee health insurance plans. In a filing Tuesday,…
Click here to view original article www.upi.com An appeals court Thursday upheld Colorado’s ban on minors receiving conversion therapy. File Photo by Kevin Dietsch/UPI | Sept. 13 (UPI) — An appeals court Thursday ruled against a challenge to Colorado’s ban on conversion therapy for minors, saying the state can continue…
Click here to view original article www.ncregister.com First Liberty Institute asked the U.S Court of Appeals for the First Circuit to reverse a lower court decision. Bangor Christian Schools building in Bangor, Maine. (photo: Courtesy photo / First Liberty Institute) Kate Quiñones/CNA Nation September 12, 2024 A Christian school on…
Click here to view original article www.catholicnewsagency.com Bangor Christian Schools building in Bangor, Maine. | Credit: Photo courtesy of First Liberty Institute CNA Staff, Sep 11, 2024 / 16:11 pm A Christian school on Sept. 3 filed an appeal against Maine for attempting to dodge a U.S. Supreme Court ruling…
Click here to view original article www.ncronline.org Notre Dame football players at the Fiesta Bowl, Glendale, Ariz. 2016. University of Notre Dame football players are seen during the Fiesta Bowl in Glendale, Ariz., in this 2016 file photo. (OSV News/Mark J. Rebilas, Action Images via USA TODAY Sports and Reuters)…
Click here to view original article www.christianitytoday.com National Religious Broadcasters convention in Nashville Bob Smietana / RNS A group of evangelical broadcasters who hosted Donald Trump at their national conference earlier this year are suing the Internal Revenue Service over the so-called Johnson Amendment, a tax law that bars nonprofits…
Click here to view original article www.ucanews.com A federal appeals court allows religious schools to receive federal funding despite challenges from LGBTQ+ students People send out love during the Boston Pride Parade in Boston, Massachusetts, on June 8. (Photo: AFP) Updated: September 04, 2024 05:03 AM GMT A federal appeals…
Click here to view original article gaycitynews.com The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Wikimedia Commons/Coolcaesar Facebook Share Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, a federal law, provides that educational institutions that get federal money may not discriminate in their educational programs “on the basis of…
Click here to view original article www.pepperdine.edu Caruso School of Law Expanding on the Pepperdine Caruso School of Law’s many law, faith, and religion course offerings, the Nootbaar Institute on Law, Religion, and Ethics launched a groundbreaking new course in fall 2023 titled Current Issues in Law, Faith, and Religion.…
Click here to view original article www.forbes.com Should taxpayers fund this?getty For the second time in six months, a U. S. District judge has ruled in Maine that private schools that accept state funds can be required to follow state anti-discrimination rules. The case is another epilog to a Supreme…
Click here to view original article www.wuft.org Then-Ocala Mayor Kent Guinn, left, talks to Edrige Rivers, 51, at a 2014 prayer vigil. A federal court ruled the vigil unconstitutional, and the city of Ocala is appealing the decision. (WUFT file photo) TALLAHASSEE — After a federal judge ruled that a…
Click here to view original article www.wcjb.com OCALA, Fla. (NSF) — After a federal judge ruled that a prayer vigil in a town square was unconstitutional, the city of Ocala has taken a long-running lawsuit to a federal appeals court. Attorneys for Ocala last week filed a notice that is…
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