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Kennedy v. Bremerton School District, 597 U.S. 507 (2022), is a landmark decision [1] by the United States Supreme Court in which the Court held, 6–3, that the government, while following the Establishment Clause, may not suppress an individual from engaging in personal religious observance, as doing so would violate the Free Speech and Free Exercise Clauses of the First Amendment.
The parents then sued in federal court, citing the 1st Amendment's protection for the free exercise of religion. They were represented by the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit affirmed a lower court's decision to dismiss a lawsuit filed by current and former students against the U.S. Department of Education for allowing ...
The lower courts rejected the argument by the plaintiffs that the school district likely was violating the U.S. Constitution's First Amendment protections for free exercise of religion.
Mahmoud v. Taylor is a pending United States Supreme Court case about parents who wish to opt their children out of LGBTQ-themed storybooks in public schools.The court will review whether the schools' policy violated the parents' right to free exercise of religion under the First Amendment.
Although the court does not provide much guidance on how to proceed in future lawsuits against churches as employers, the ruling has broad sweep. It abandons the court's longtime practice of balancing the interest in the free exercise of religion against important government interests, like protection against workplace bias or retaliation. With ...
Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc., 573 U.S. 682 (2014), is a landmark decision [1] [2] in United States corporate law by the United States Supreme Court allowing privately held for-profit corporations to be exempt from a regulation that its owners religiously object to, if there is a less restrictive means of furthering the law's interest, according to the provisions of the Religious Freedom ...
In the first, Trinity Lutheran Church of Columbia, Inc. v. Comer (582 U.S. ___ (2017)), the Court ruled that denying a religious school in Missouri the funds to rebuild a playground while providing funds to non-secular schools violated the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment, and that government programs cannot discriminate on the basis ...