Mar 25 2025 Tuesday 3:00 p.m. EDT The Roots, Applications, and Trajectory of the Church Autonomy Doctrine Speakers: Thomas C. Berg • Leslie C. Griffin • Alex J. Luchenitser • Branton J. Nestor • Amanda Salz more Topics: First Amendment • Religious Liberties Sponsors: Religious Liberties Practice Group Webinar
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 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...
Mar 9 2023 Publication Federalist Society Review A Cord of Three Strands: How Kennedy v. Bremerton School District Changed Free Exercise, Establishment, and Free Speech Clause Doctrine Stephanie Taub, Kayla Ann Toney In 2015, Bremerton High School football coach Joseph Kennedy lost his job for kneeling at...
Dec 7 2022 Topics Litigation • Religious Liberty Blog Post News DC Court of Appeals Holds That Judicial Intervention Is Inappropriate In a Religious Schism Victoria Dorfman, Brett Wierenga The District of Columbia Court of Appeals recently declined to intervene in a religious dispute...
Sep 29 2021 Publication Federalist Society Review An Extended Essay on Church Autonomy Carl H. Esbeck The doctrine of church autonomy[1] is distinct from the two more familiar lines of cases...
Sep 10 2021 Publication State Court Docket Watch State Court Docket Watch: DeWeese-Boyd v. Gordon College Jordan Lorence Note from the Editor: Mr. Lorence's organization, Alliance Defending Freedom, was retained by Gordon College to...
Aug 23 2021 Topics Religious Liberties Blog Post News En Banc Seventh Circuit Rules that Ministerial Exception Applies to Hostile Work Environment Claims Victoria Dorfman, Victoria Anne Cuneo Powell The en banc Seventh Circuit recently held that the First Amendment prohibits a minister from...
Jul 2 2021 Publication State Court Docket Watch State Court Docket Watch: Woods v. Seattle Union Gospel Mission Seth L. Cooper Note from the Editor: The Federalist Society takes no positions on particular legal and public...
Jun 17 2021 Publication Federalist Society Review Religious Schools, Collective Bargaining, & the Constitutional Legacy of NLRB v. Catholic Bishop Alexander T. MacDonald It would be difficult to find a corner of American labor law more anomalous than...
The Roots, Applications, and Trajectory of the Church Autonomy Doctrine
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...
Topics
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...
A Cord of Three Strands: How Kennedy v. Bremerton School District Changed Free Exercise, Establishment, and Free Speech Clause Doctrine
Stephanie Taub, Kayla Ann Toney
In 2015, Bremerton High School football coach Joseph Kennedy lost his job for kneeling at...
Topics
DC Court of Appeals Holds That Judicial Intervention Is Inappropriate In a Religious Schism
The District of Columbia Court of Appeals recently declined to intervene in a religious dispute...
An Extended Essay on Church Autonomy
Carl H. Esbeck
The doctrine of church autonomy[1] is distinct from the two more familiar lines of cases...
State Court Docket Watch: DeWeese-Boyd v. Gordon College
Jordan Lorence
Note from the Editor: Mr. Lorence's organization, Alliance Defending Freedom, was retained by Gordon College to...
Topics
En Banc Seventh Circuit Rules that Ministerial Exception Applies to Hostile Work Environment Claims
The en banc Seventh Circuit recently held that the First Amendment prohibits a minister from...
State Court Docket Watch: Woods v. Seattle Union Gospel Mission
Seth L. Cooper
Note from the Editor: The Federalist Society takes no positions on particular legal and public...
Religious Schools, Collective Bargaining, & the Constitutional Legacy of NLRB v. Catholic Bishop
Alexander T. MacDonald
It would be difficult to find a corner of American labor law more anomalous than...