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. 1106 (1994) Ira ...

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 ...

violated the First Amendment’s free exercise clause. Their claims are not moot just because the proclamation has been rescinded. Sign up for new weekly newsletter Closing Arguments to get the latest ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of ...

Recent Supreme Court rulings have made clear that the government can’t use the Establishment Clause to violate free speech and religious expression rights.