The Seventh Circuit found an Indiana high school’s Christmas Spectacular concert constitutional after the school added Hanukkah and Kwanzaa songs and replaced its live nativity with mannequins.
Read moreAuthorities in Serbia’s capital are facing outrage over the purchase of a plastic Christmas tree that reportedly cost the equivalent of $98,000 and has sparked corruption allegations. An anti-corruption website has described the 59-feet tree as the most expensive in the world — four times the price of the one outside Rockefeller Center in New York.
Read moreThe D.C. Circuit on Wednesday denied the Archdiocese of Washington’s request for an injunction while it appeals a federal judge’s ruling that the Capitol’s regional transit authority does not have to display the church’s Christmas advertisements on buses.
Read moreA shrinking number of Americans actually believe in the biblical stories surrounding Christmas and a growing number see the holiday as a cultural one, not a religious celebration, according to a Pew Research Center study released Tuesday.
Read moreA federal judge on Friday rejected the Archdiocese of Washington’s request that she force the D.C. regional transit authority to post its Christmas advertisements on its buses.
Read moreA federal judge heard oral arguments Tuesday from the Archdiocese of Washington about whether the court should force the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority to run its Christmas-themed advertisements on public buses.
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The Archdiocese of Washington claims in court that it will suffer irreparable harm if the city’s public transportation system is allowed to reject advertisements the church wants to purchase on D.C.-area buses.
Read moreA venerable Seventh Circuit judge asked an ACLU lawyer Tuesday if a high school performance of Johann Sebastian Bach’s “St. Matthew’s Passion” would violate the U.S. Constitution. Reacting to the lawyer’s unfamiliarity with the piece, Judge Frank Easterbrook said, “Oh dear, that is a problem,” before lecturing the lawyer on the sacred oratorio’s importance as one of the greatest pieces “in the history of music.”
Read moreA disabled Army veteran sued Michigan on Friday, claiming its Department of Health and Human Services fired him unconstitutionally, for posting a holiday picture of himself dressed up as Santa Claus with an assault rifle.
Read moreA choir of Broadway singers claims in a lawsuit filed Tuesday in New York County that pop star Mariah Carey reneged on paying the singers for a series of Christmas concerts last year.
Read moreA widow claims in court that a former Texas City police officer found her husband unconscious on the side of the road with more than $2,000 in cash meant for Christmas gifts and stole the money, just before the man died.
Read moreA federal judge Friday refused Ryan Bundy’s request to be released from jail for Christmas, as he awaits trial for his role in an armed 2014 standoff with federal authorities near his father’s ranch.
Read moreA Texas judge blocked a school district’s removal of a “Charlie Brown Christmas” decoration that contained a Bible verse Thursday, hours after a nurse’s aide and Texas followed through on threats to sue over its removal.
Read moreA Texas school district voted Tuesday to keep a controversial “A Charlie Brown Christmas” religious decoration down, ignoring warnings from an employee and Attorney General Ken Paxton that it is breaking the law.
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton chastised a school district for ordering the removal of a holiday decoration depicting a scene from “A Charlie Brown Christmas” that included a Bible verse.
Read moreChristmas has come early in New Jersey after a federal judge tossed out free-speech claims by a teacher who caused a stir by talking about her Dutch family’s penchant for holiday black face.
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