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Category: Civil Rights
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
Religion Clause - January 31, 2012
AP reports that an Iowa federal bankruptcy judge on Monday took the unusual step of ordering a "fire sale" of a herd of llamas that came under court control two weeks ago after a self-proclaimed priest
Religion Clause - January 31, 2012
Today is the Republican presidential primary in Florida. Last week CNN analyzed the likely evangelical vote in Florida:There ar
Religion Clause - January 31, 2012
The New York Times in an article posted yesterday explores the struggle in post-revolutionary Tunisia between secular and religious forces. One symbol of the t
Religion Clause - January 30, 2012
From SSRN:Micah Schwartzman, What If Religion is Not Special?, (January 25, 2012).Peter T. Leeson and Christopher J. Coyne, S
Religion Clause - January 30, 2012
Yesterday's Christian Science Monitor reports that as the fighting goes on in Syria, the conflict is moving from a popular uprising to a confrontation between Sunnis and Shiit
Religion Clause - January 29, 2012
American Muslim yesterday reported on objections that have been raised to the invitation extended by the Chaplain's Office at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point to retired Lt. Ge
Religion Clause - January 29, 2012
In Watkins v. Donnelly, 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 6118 (WD OK, Jan. 19, 2012), an Oklahoma federal district court adopted a magistrate's recommendations (
Religion Clause - January 29, 2012
Wipf v. Hutterville Hutterian Bretheren, Inc., (SD Sup. Ct., Jan. 25, 2012) is the South Dakota Supreme Court's second installment in a factional dispute in a South Dakota Hutterite colony, and one of the first cases to cite t
Religion Clause - January 28, 2012
In Ward v. Polite, (6th Cir., Jan. 27, 2012), the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a Michigan trial court's grant of summary judgment in favor of Eastern Michigan University (see
Religion Clause - January 28, 2012
The EEOC announced Thursday that it has filed suit against the Arkansas-based Ozarks Electric Cooperative Corporation for refusing to allow a call center customer service representative who was a Jehovahs Witness to take one
civilrights.org - January 27, 2012
Recent changes and legislation affecting elections in Florida will have a negative effect on voter participation, civil and human rights advocates told members of the Senate Judiciary Committees Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights during a field hearing held today in ...
Religion Clause - January 27, 2012
Today is the United Nations'-declared annual International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust. Haaretz reports on plans in countries acro
Religion Clause - January 27, 2012
Since 2010, the U.S. State Department has produced a series of online videos labeled Conversations with America. The videos feature live interviews with the leaders of nongovernmental organizations interacting with State Departments
Religion Clause - January 27, 2012
In Islamic Center of North Fulton, Inc. v. City of Alpharetta, Georgia, (ND GA, Jan. 25, 2012), a Georgia federal district court dismissed RLUIPA and federal constitutional challenges to Alpharetta's refusal to giv
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