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Category: Civil Rights
civilrights.org - February 04, 2012
Over the opposition of state transportation departments, the National Urban League, Transportation for America, the American Public Transportation Association, and a diverse coalition of other organizations, the House Ways and Means Committee today passed a bill that would strip dedicated funding ...
Religion Clause - February 03, 2012
In Mitchell County v. Zimmerman, (IA Sup. Ct., Feb. 3, 2012), the Iowa Supreme Court held that a county ordinance prohibiting use on paved roads of tractors equipped with steel cleated wheels
Religion Clause - February 03, 2012
President Obama spoke yesterday at the National Prayer Breakfast held at the Washington Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.C. (Full text of remarks.) He said in part:
Religion Clause - February 03, 2012
AP reported yesterday on the contents of a 2006 New York Police Department Intelligence Strategy Report (
Religion Clause - February 03, 2012
AP reports that in France yesterday, an appeals court upheld a lower court's fraud conviction of the Church of Scientology that had been charged with pressuring members to pay large amounts
Religion Clause - February 03, 2012
In Perry v. Brown, (9th Cir., Feb. 2, 2012), the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals held that a California district court abused its discretion in ordering the unsealing of a video recording of the trial p
Religion Clause - February 02, 2012
Yesterday at 4:00 p.m. was the deadline for filing of claims in the bankruptcy proceedings of the Catholic Archdiocese of Milwaukee. The Milwaukee Sentinel-Journal report
Religion Clause - February 02, 2012
In In re: Navy Chaplaincy, (D DC, Jan. 30, 2012), the D.C. federal district court denied a preliminary injunction in an Establishment Clause challenge to the Navy Chaplain Corps selection board process for
Religion Clause - February 02, 2012
The New York Times reports that the U.S. Military Academy on Monday announced that retired Lt. Gen William G. Boykin "has decided to withdraw speaking at West Poin
Religion Clause - February 01, 2012
The U.S. Forest Service has agreed to renew a controversial special use permit in a ski area in Montana. As previously reported, in October the U.S. Forest Service withdrew an earlier decis
Religion Clause - February 01, 2012
At yesterday' White House press briefing (full text), Press Secretary Jay Carney engaged in a lengthy exchange with reporters on the Catholic Bishops' strong opposition to new rules un
Religion Clause - February 01, 2012
In Sweden, a change in law took effect January 1 that limits mores narrowly the situations in which parents can home-school their children. It is now permitted only in "extraordinary" circumstances. The new law aims to make education across the country more uniform. (See
Religion Clause - February 01, 2012
Yesterday, the Indiana state Senate passed SB 89 (full text) by a vote of 28-22. The bill allows public
Religion Clause - January 31, 2012
In India's only Muslim-majority state, Jammu & Kashmir, an unofficial sharia court (which was not created by the government) on Jan.19 issued a fatwa ordering the expulsion of three Christian priests. It also urged the government to take over management of missionary schools, introduce
Religion Clause - January 31, 2012
CBS News reports that last Sunday Catholic Churches around the country read similar letters from their local bishops condemning the Obama administration's new rules requiring contraceptio
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