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 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.

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 ...

Another First Amendment case that the Court will ... decision under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act and the Free Exercise Clause. In a fractured en banc ruling cobbled together from two ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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

One of the most important features of our Constitution was the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. Without it, free exercise of religion is compromised. State funding of religion does not ...