Number of Christian worshipers limited based on church's own security assessment. Similar restrictions also on Jewish pilgrims at Mount Meron....
YU's lawyer: “The parties will press forward with discovery,” after which Yeshiva can appeal to the Court of Appeals and, if necessary, the United States Supreme Court.”...
Court finds the state education department exceeded its authority in requiring religious schools to provide the substantial equivalent of secular education: "Parents should be given a reasonable opportunity to prove that the substantial equivalency requirements for their children's education are satisfied by instruction provided through...
Proposal would remove Trump-Pence era regulation mandating that higher education treat campus religious groups and secular groups equally...
Comptroller warns: "I must urge your institution to change course and offer a secure environment for your LGBTQ+ students and staff to create a supportive space to rightfully express their full selves."...
"Don’t tell me about no separation of church and state. State is the body, church is the heart. You take the heart out of the body, the body dies."...
“The defendant Rolando José Álvarez Lagos is held to be a traitor to the country.”...
It's never really over in the culture war, is it? Perhaps on a second trip to the U.S. Supreme Court we will finally get a ruling on the merits of whether anti-discrimination laws can be used to compel speech with which the speaker disagrees on...
The motion is the latest step on YU's path back to the United States Supreme Court....
Rejects Yeshiva's claim to be an exempt "religious corporation" and rejects Yeshiva's 1st Amendment claim: "Providing the Pride Alliance with full and equal access to public accommodations does not intrude on Yeshiva’s asserted right “to decide matters ‘of faith and doctrine.’"...
A follow up to our prior coverage of the three Christian teachers fired after the district refused even to consider their requests for religious exemption. Court imposed a $500 fine for an open meetings violation and more significantly, the teacher's attorney's fees that could be...
The Supreme Court indicated it likely would take the case once state appeals were exhausted, and likely would rule in favor of the university....
“the university will hold off on all undergraduate club activities while it immediately takes steps to follow the roadmap provided by the US Supreme Court to protect YU’s religious freedom.”...
Majority: "The application is denied because it appears that applicants have at least two further avenues for expedited or interim state court relief." Alito Dissent: "As the [Pride] Alliance has contended, this would force Yeshiva to make a 'statement' in support of an interpretation of...
A New York Times article attacking boys’ Hasidic schools was published today, on the eve of the New York State Board of Regents vote on regulations poised to undermine the way Jewish religious schools have operated for generations. The timing of The Times' attack appears...
"Yeshiva shouldn’t have been forced to go all the way to the Supreme Court to receive such a commonsense ruling in favor of its First Amendment rights." Eric Baxter, Vice President and Senior Counsel at Becket, said, "We are grateful that Justice Sotomayor stepped in to protect Yeshiva’s...
"previously a lawyer with the ACLU of Massachusetts"...
Religious freedom for the win....
