Apr 9 2025 Topics Religious Liberty • State Courts • Supreme Court Blog Post The Supreme Court Hears Oral Argument in Catholic Charities Bureau v. Wisconsin Labor and Industry Review Commission Sarah E. Lang On March 31, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in its first religious freedom case...
Apr 8 2025 Topics Religious Liberty Blog Post Say the Magic Word, Counselor: Oral Argument in Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic Jennie Bradley Lichter, Grace Cala On Wednesday, April 2, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Medina v. Planned Parenthood...
Mar 12 2025 Topics Federal Courts • Jurisprudence • Religious Liberty Blog Post Should Lower Courts Continue to Apply Employment Division v. Smith? Frederick Claybrook The Supreme Court in 1990 in Employment Division v. Smith held that a rational regulation...
Mar 12 2025 Topics Labor & Employment Law • Religious Liberty • Supreme Court Blog Post Two Supreme Court Justices Challenge “Confusing” McDonnell Douglas Employment Discrimination Framework Stephanie Taub On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court denied certiorari in Hittle v. City of Stockton, California,...
Mar 4 2025 Topics Civil Rights • Religious Liberty Blog Post Does Israel’s Destiny Depend on the West or Vice-Versa?: A Review of Josh Hammer’s New Book, Israel & Civilization: The Fate of the Jewish Nation and the Destiny of the West Matthew Solomson In the late 1730s, Rabbi Moshe Chaim Luzatto—known by his name’s Hebrew acronym “Ramchal”—published his...
Mar 4 2025 Topics Federal Courts • First Amendment • Religious Liberty Blog Post Huntsman v. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints: Church Autonomy is “a Threshold Structural Bar that Must be Reckoned With” Carl H. Esbeck In Huntsman v. Corporation of the President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day...
Feb 25 2025 Topics Civil Rights • Federal Courts • Religious Liberty Blog Post Wrong Foote Forward: First Circuit Tramples Parental Rights Frederick Claybrook Over the last decade, many parents have been complaining about the fact that public schools...
Feb 5 2025 Topics Federal Courts • Religious Liberty Blog Post Markel v. Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America: Welcome Developments in the Law of Church Autonomy Carl H. Esbeck In its recent decision in Markel v. Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America, the...
Feb 5 2025 Topics Civil Rights • Religious Liberty • Supreme Court Blog Post Supreme Court to Weigh Whether Religious Parents Have Right of Opt-Out from Controversial Curriculum Sarah Parshall Perry The Supreme Court’s term is already chock full of cases with culture war implications: pornography...
Jan 31 2025 Topics Religious Liberty • State Courts Blog Post Church Splits, Property Fights, and the Limits of Civil Jurisdiction Matthew James Clark In 2024, the Alabama Supreme Court released two cases involving property disputes that were fueled...
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The Supreme Court Hears Oral Argument in Catholic Charities Bureau v. Wisconsin Labor and Industry Review Commission
On March 31, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in its first religious freedom case...
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Say the Magic Word, Counselor: Oral Argument in Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic
On Wednesday, April 2, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Medina v. Planned Parenthood...
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Should Lower Courts Continue to Apply Employment Division v. Smith?
The Supreme Court in 1990 in Employment Division v. Smith held that a rational regulation...
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Two Supreme Court Justices Challenge “Confusing” McDonnell Douglas Employment Discrimination Framework
On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court denied certiorari in Hittle v. City of Stockton, California,...
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Does Israel’s Destiny Depend on the West or Vice-Versa?: A Review of Josh Hammer’s New Book, Israel & Civilization: The Fate of the Jewish Nation and the Destiny of the West
In the late 1730s, Rabbi Moshe Chaim Luzatto—known by his name’s Hebrew acronym “Ramchal”—published his...
Topics
Huntsman v. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints: Church Autonomy is “a Threshold Structural Bar that Must be Reckoned With”
In Huntsman v. Corporation of the President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day...
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Wrong Foote Forward: First Circuit Tramples Parental Rights
Over the last decade, many parents have been complaining about the fact that public schools...
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Markel v. Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America: Welcome Developments in the Law of Church Autonomy
In its recent decision in Markel v. Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America, the...
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Supreme Court to Weigh Whether Religious Parents Have Right of Opt-Out from Controversial Curriculum
The Supreme Court’s term is already chock full of cases with culture war implications: pornography...
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Church Splits, Property Fights, and the Limits of Civil Jurisdiction
In 2024, the Alabama Supreme Court released two cases involving property disputes that were fueled...