Employment Division v. Smith

Litigation Update: Apache Stronghold v. United States Goes En Banc at the Ninth Circuit

Anthony J. Ferate, Luke Goodrich, Adam F. Griffin

This case presents an intersection between Native Americans’ free exercise rights and the Government’s power...

Will the Supreme Court Revisit Employment Division v. Smith?

Eric Baxter

In 1990, the Supreme Court startled the nation with a decision in Employment Division v....

Credentials Not Required: Why an Employee’s Significant Religious Functions Should Suffice to Trigger the Ministerial Exception

Thomas C. Berg, Erik Money, Nathaniel Fouch

Federalist Society Review, Volume 20

Note from the Editor:  The Federalist Society takes no positions on particular legal and public...

Religious Liberties: Is the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) the Future of Religious Liberty?

John C. Eastman, Richard W. Garnett, William P. Marshall, Vincent Phillip Munoz, Michael Uhlmann

2016 National Lawyers Convention

In his seminal decision in Employment Division v. Smith in 1990, Justice Antonin Scalia held...

Religious Liberties: Is the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) the Future of Religious Liberty?

John C. Eastman, Richard W. Garnett, William P. Marshall, Vincent Phillip Munoz, Michael Uhlmann

2016 National Lawyers Convention

In his seminal decision in Employment Division v. Smith in 1990, Justice Antonin Scalia held...

Virginia Supreme Court Rules State Constitution Includes Expansive Protections of Religious Exercise

Abigail Smith

  In Vlaming v. West Point School Board, a former teacher’s lawsuit was given new life...

Stormans v. Wiesman: Paths to Strict Scrutiny in Religious Free Exercise Cases

Steven T. Collis

Federalist Society Review, Volume 17, Issue 2

Note from the Editor: This article is about Stormans v. Wiesman, a case from the 9th...

303 Creative, Masterpiece Cakeshop, and the Fate of Free Exercise for Wedding Vendors

Andrew Koppelman, Douglas Laycock, Austin Rogers, Jonathan Scruggs

Over the past decade, the tension between First Amendment rights and public accommodations laws has...

303 Creative, Masterpiece Cakeshop, and the Fate of Free Exercise for Wedding Vendors

Andrew Koppelman, Douglas Laycock, Austin Rogers, Jonathan Scruggs

Over the past decade, the tension between First Amendment rights and public accommodations laws has...

Panel 3: Religious Liberty after the USCCR Report

Marci A. Hamilton, Douglas Laycock, William P. Marshall, Michael Stokes Paulsen, William H. Pryor

2017 National Student Symposium

In September, 2016, the United States Commission on Civil Rights released a report entitled Peaceful Coexistence: Reconciling...