As noted in an August 2024 column , anti-religious discrimination continues unabated in Maine despite the Supreme Court’s June 21, 2022 ruling in Carson v. Makin. In Carson, the Court reasoned that state officials could not exclude […]
On December 13, 2024, the Supreme Court accepted its first case involving religion in almost two years, Catholic Charities Bureau v. Wisconsin Labor & Industry Review Commission. At issue in Catholic Charities is “[w]hether a state violates the First […]
Since 2016, in three cases from Missouri, Montana, and Maine, the Supreme Court ushered in a new era in its blossoming First Amendment jurisprudence. It has emphasized that state officials cannot deny a faith-based institution, and by extension, individuals, […]
The Ninth Circuit, in Loffman v. California Department of Education unanimously handed down a strong rebuke to the California Department of Education and Los Angeles Unified School District in a dispute over parental free exercise rights […]
As illustrated by E.D. v. Noblesville School District—a case from Indiana in which the Seventh Circuit recently heard oral arguments—controversies continue over the pro-life beliefs and free speech rights of students. Late in the summer of 2021, […]
According to an October 10, 2024 report from the Centers for Disease Control, “[i]n 2023, 3.3% of U.S. high school students identified as transgender, and 2.2% identified as questioning.” This represents a significant increase since the […]
Controversy abounds over the rights of instructional personnel who avoid referring to transgender students by names or pronouns inconsistent with their birth sexes because doing so would violate their First Amendment rights to freedom of […]
On October 8, 2024, in a 4-3 decision in Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Scardina, the Supreme Court of Colorado may have finally ended the long-running ordeal of persecution by lawfare of Jack Phillips. The high-profile case began […]
In April 2024, Colorado officials adopted a law allowing students to change their chosen names without having to inform their parents, a school board policy. Under this policy in Jefferson County (near Denver), parents were […]
As I have detailed in previous pieces, an ongoing battle rages over parental rights to direct the upbringing of their children. The latest skirmish in this fight is Mahmoud v. McKnight, a dispute from Montgomery County, Maryland. In Mahmoud, an interfaith coalition of Muslim, Eastern […]
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