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The Court agreed to take on the case and Becket represented Holt, citing that the denial of the plaintiff's right to grow his beard according to his faith is a clear violation of the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act. The Supreme Court would later unanimously rule in support of Holt. [20]
Becket has landed several significant appeals at the Supreme Court just this month, including the case challenging New York’s insurance requirement for certain abortions – a policy that is in ...
The Supreme Court agreed Friday to take up a culture wars dispute and decide whether parents have a religious liberty right to have their children "opt out" of using school textbooks and lesson ...
Kristina Arriaga de Bucholz is an American First Amendment and human rights advocate, former nonprofit executive, and diplomat who served as the executive director of the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty [1] before being appointed in 2016 by Speaker of the United States House of Representatives Paul Ryan to the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom, [1] where she was ...
“The Wisconsin Supreme Court got this case dead wrong," said Eric Rassbach, vice president and senior counsel at the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, a law firm that is representing Catholic ...
The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled against the town, [5] and on May 20, 2013 the Supreme Court agreed to rule on the issue. [6] On May 5, 2014, the Supreme Court ruled 5–4 in favor of the Town of Greece, holding that the town's practice of beginning legislative sessions with prayer did not violate the ...
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Friday to hear a bid by religious parents to keep their children out of classes in a Maryland public school district when LGBT storybooks are read, the latest case ...
The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States. It has ultimate appellate jurisdiction over all U.S. federal court cases, and over state court cases that turn on questions of U.S. constitutional or federal law.