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Establishment Clause
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PrawfsBlawg
Chapman, “Money for Missionaries”
Main Thursday, February 14, 2019Chapman, "Money for Missionaries"Nathan Chapman (Georgia) has posted a fascinating new paper at SSRN. It's called "Money for Missionaries: Rethinking Establishment Clause History." (He workshopped this…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Fourth Circuit Rejects Student’s Establishment, Free Speech Claims Against Lesson on Islam
The Fourth Circuit rejected an eleventh-grade student's Establishment Clause and Free Speech Clause claims against school administrators and the district for including lessons on Islam in a world history course.…
Religion Clause
Settlement Filed In Louisiana Religion In Schools Case
Yesterday a settlement agreement was filed with a Louisiana federal district court in Does 1-4 v. Bossier Parish School Board. In the case (see prior posting), plaintiffs claimed widespread Establishment Clause…
Religion Clause
Establishment Clause Challenge To Drag Queen Storytime Dismissed
In Christopher v. Lawson, (SD TX, Jan. 3, 2018), a Texas federal district court dismissed a lawsuit that claimed the Houston Public Library's "Drag Queen Storytime" violates the Establishment Clause.…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
SCOTUS Grants Certiorari in Establishment Clause Challenge to Maryland’s 40 foot “Latin Cross”
Professor Ruthann Robson, City University of New York (CUNY) School of LawThe Court has granted certiorari in Maryland-Capital Park and Planning Commission v. American Humanist Association centered on the constitutionality…
Rocky Mountain Sign Law Blog
Appeals Court Finds That Concrete Cross Violates Establishment Clause, But Is Reversal In Sight?
[caption id="attachment_2553" align="alignright" width="320"] A photo of the cross in Bayview Park. Source: Fox News.[/caption] Last week, a three-judge panel of the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals held that a…
Supreme Court Update
Ortiz v. United States (16-1423)
By Kim Rinehart, Tadhg Dooley, David R. Roth
OT17 came to a close this morning, and—as is generally the case—the Court saved its most controversial decisions for last. Yesterday morning (as you just might have heard by now),…
Subscript Law Blog
Trump v. Hawaii (Decided June 26, 2018)
Trump's travel ban stands. We broke down the heart of the Justices' disagreement.There were two main arguments challenging Trump's travel ban. That is, the third version of it. But it…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Closely Divided SCOTUS Finds Trump “Travel Ban” Constitutional
Professor Ruthann Robson, City University of New York (CUNY) School of LawIn its opinion in Trump v. Hawaii, a closely divided United States Supreme Court found that the so-called "travel ban"…
RLUIPA Defense Blog
Eleventh Circuit Affirms Dismissal of City’s Approval of Chabad Religious Center as Moot
By Evan Seeman
The United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit recently affirmed the lower court’s decision dismissing an Establishment Clause challenge over the approval of a religious center. The lawsuit…