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About Charles J. Russo
Charles J. Russo, M.Div., J.D., Ed.D., Joseph Panzer Chair of Education in the School of Education and Health Sciences (SEHS), Director of SEHS’s Ph.D. Program in Educational Leadership, and Research Professor of Law in the School of Law at the University of Dayton, OH, specializes in issues involving education and the law with a special focus on religious freedom. He is also an Adjunct Professor at Notre Dame University of Australia School of Law, Sydney Campus. He can be reached at crusso1@udayton.edu. All views expressed herein are exclusively his own.
Analysis

Faith-based charter schools: An emerging and contentious legal frontier

August 8, 2023 Charles J. Russo 6

A dispute involving the growing school choice movement emerged on June 5th when Oklahoma’s Statewide Virtual Charter School Board, in a three-to-two vote, approved the creation of the first faith-based publicly funded online charter school […]

The Dispatch

Controversy continues over compelled speech and “same-sex weddings”

August 4, 2023 Charles J. Russo 50

Controversy rages on even after the Supreme Court ruled in 303 Creative v. Elenis that public officials in Colorado could not force a wedding website designer to offer her services to couples entering into “same-sex […]

Analysis

Catholic schools and “same-sex marriages”: An emerging legal clash

July 30, 2023 Charles J. Russo 16

In the first three disputes, all of which arose in Indiana, educators in Catholic high schools unsuccessfully sued educational officials for terminating their employment due to their having entered into “same-sex marriages” in violation of […]

Analysis

How 303 Creative v. Elenis exposed the ideology of activist SCOTUS justices

July 17, 2023 Charles J. Russo 8

303 Creative v. Elenis was one of this year’s most highly awaited Supreme Court cases. At issue was whether Colorado could enforce a statute compelling a website designer for weddings (or others in similar situations), […]

The Dispatch

Another victory for religious freedom

July 5, 2023 Charles J. Russo 1

The Supreme Court’s recent judgment in Groff v. DeJoy was another victory for religious freedom, reflective of a change in direction in a variety of its recent cases. In Groff, a postal worker who is […]

Analysis

The battle for religious liberty in education rages on in Maine

June 25, 2023 Charles J. Russo 5

The battle for religious liberty in education rages on. This important fight continues even though the Supreme Court, in opinions (three in the past six years) by Chief Justice John G. Roberts, invalidated laws limiting […]

The Dispatch

Denial of OK family planning aid highlights hypocrisy of “Catholic” Biden

June 12, 2023 Charles J. Russo 13

The Biden Administration’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), in late May, denied $4.5 million in funding to the Oklahoma State Department of Health (OSDH) for family planning services because state law protects the […]

The Dispatch

Suit filed by Christian college aimed at HUD policies undermining sexual distinctions

June 5, 2023 Charles J. Russo 18

The Biden administration, through the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), has announced rules in the form of a Directive that may threaten the College of the Ozarks in Missouri and other institutions grounded […]

Analysis

“The child is not the mere creature of the state…”

May 29, 2023 Charles J. Russo 4

In 1925, in Pierce v. Society of Sisters of the Holy Names Jesus and Mary, the Supreme Court unanimously affirmed the right of parents in Oregon to have their children educated where they wished. Officials […]

The Dispatch

“My body, my choice,” vaccination mandates, and religious freedom

May 20, 2023 Charles J. Russo 25

On May 15, 2023, the Ninth Circuit, in Keene v. City and County of San Francisco, in a ruling that may signal a return to some semblance of normalcy in the post-COVID-19 world, reversed a […]

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