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New York abortion coverage mandate challenged at state’s high court

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany and other religious organizations revived their challenge of the state's law requiring health plans to cover "medically necessary" abortions.

Judge out in Scientology suit over forced marriage; plaintiff lawyer calls timing ‘highly suspicious’

The old judge had just issued a tentative ruling denying the church's motion to send the case to arbitration.

Muslim student loses UK court bid over prayer rituals ban

In a written ruling, judge Thomas Linden dismissed the pupil's arguments, ruling that by enrolling at the school she had effectively accepted being subject to restrictions on manifesting her faith.

Followers of polygamist church leader refuse plea offers, will proceed to trial

FLDS leader Samuel Bateman’s plea agreement is contingent on guilty pleas from all of his co-defendants.

Courts and churches

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The Alabama Supreme Court ruled that the courts do not have to abstain from deciding a property dispute between the United Methodist Church and a smaller church that seeks to split from it. The ecclesiastical abstention doctrine does not apply here because the dispute is not a church matter as much as it is an issue of property ownership.

Practicing in prison

NEW ORLEANS — The Fifth Circuit reversed a Texas federal court’s judgment in favor of the state’s criminal justice department, which was sued by a Muslim inmate who says he is unable to pray in peace. He has shown that Muslim inmates are given only one hour weekly for religious programming, much less than the six hours that Jewish and Native American inmates are allowed, and has proposed reasonable solutions to deficiencies in policy.

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