A Native American tribe brought a federal complaint Monday that accuses a New Jersey town and homeowner’s association of levying illegal fines and trying to intimidate them into stopping open-air prayers on ceremonial grounds.
Read moreThe Satanic Temple and a member brought a federal complaint against Scottsdale, Arizona, for refusing to allow them to give an invocation at a City Council meeting after prior approval.
Read morePublic school boards should be allowed to open their meetings with an invocation just like other legislative bodies do, an attorney for a Southern California school district told a Ninth Circuit panel Wednesday.
Read moreWASHINGTON (CN) – Congress has the right to hold a prayer at the start of each legislative day, and can
Read moreA Florida county’s practice of banning non-theists from giving the invocation before public meetings is unconstitutional, a federal judge ruled Saturday.
Read moreA divided full Sixth Circuit on Wednesday upheld a Michigan county’s practice of opening its board meetings with a commissioner-led prayer as constitutional, finding the prayers fall inside the scope of historically accepted traditions and are not coercive.
Read moreAn en banc Fourth Circuit on Friday ruled that commissioners in Rowan County, North Carolina, violated the constitution by opening public meetings with participation in prayers that are specific to one religion.
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Ahmed Ghailani, the first Guantanamo detainee to be tried in civilian court, won a ruling Wednesday in his fight to participate in weekly Islamic prayer at the Colorado supermax where he will spend the rest of his life.
Read moreThe entire Sixth Circuit heard debate Wednesday over the constitutionality of a Michigan county’s practice of opening board meetings with a commissioner-led prayer, after the court vacated a three-judge panel’s ruling against the prayer and agreed to decide the case en banc.
Read moreWhen does tradition become coercion? That was the question the Fourth Circuit was asked to consider Wednesday as it grappled with a controversy over a prayer recited before a county commission meeting.
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A Texas judge who opens his court with a prayer each day puts fear into lawyers who believe that if they object it could spell trouble for their clients, two attorneys claim in a constitutional lawsuit.
Read moreTexas Attorney General Ken Paxton warned a suburban Dallas school district Friday that its prayer room for Muslim students may violate other students’ religious liberty.
Read moreThe constitutionality of government-led prayer will be determined by the entire Sixth Circuit in an en banc hearing, following a poll of its judges without a request from the parties involved.
Read moreIn a 2-1 ruling with a vigorous dissent, the Sixth Circuit on Wednesday found that prayers uttered by county commissioners to open monthly board meetings “are literally ‘government speech’” and violate the Establishment Clause of the Constitution.
Read moreThe committee overseeing next week’s presidential inauguration forced the Trump International Hotel to cancel a contract with a reverend who planned to host an annual prayer breakfast at the hotel the morning Donald Trump is sworn in as president, the reverend claims in court.
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