The First Amendment, in its non-establishment as ... Lash, The Second Adoption of the Free Exercise Clause: Religious Exemptions and the Fourteenth Amendment, 88 Nw. U. L. Rev.

A class action is a type of legal action where a representative individual or group of individuals can bring a claim on behalf of a larger group or class who share a common legal interest.

The U.S. Supreme Court has found that Philadelphia’s ordinance requiring a private foster care agency to certify same-sex couples as foster parents burdened the agency’s religious exercise in ...

Their primary goal was to protect free exercise. That was the main ... “The ‘establishment of religion’ clause of the First Amendment,” the Court said, “means at least this: neither ...

SAN FRANCISCO — The Ninth Circuit found that a Washington federal court should not have entered judgment in favor of Spokane and the state, who were sued by Spokane firefighters who said that Governor ...

The Court ruled in favor of Phillips on his Free Exercise Clause challenge ... In both cases, First Amendment rights precluded an oppressive application of a public accommodations law.

America’s Founding Fathers enshrined the free exercise of religion in the First Amendment, viewing it as vital to a perfect Union. A new documentary hosted by Richard Brookhiser explores this ...

is ultimately governed by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging ...

Labeling them unprofessional, the university investigated her twice—first ... Clause” (which prevents the government from establishing an official religion) and the “Free Exercise Clause ...