A Ten Commandments display on the city hall lawn in Bloomfield, New Mexico, violates the establishment clause, a federal appeals court ruled on Wednesday.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday stayed a decision requiring a religiously affiliated health-care provider to comply with federal pension funding requirements for its employees.
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear 10 cases in November, but earlier granted cases on the free exercise clause and regulatory takings are not among them.
The lawyer for an Indianapolis woman accused of beating her 7-year-old son with a coat hanger, causing 36 bruises and welts, argues she is protected by Indiana’s Religious Freedom Restoration…
A justice of the peace’s volunteer chaplain program that is open to religious leaders of any faith is probably constitutional, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton says in a legal opinion.
A criminal defense lawyer in Texas says two judges have issued orders banning his Facebook prayers, a violation of his First Amendment rights to freedom of religion and speech.
Donald Trump’s plan for “extreme vetting” of would-be immigrants may be difficult to implement, but it is likely constitutional, a law professor says in an op-ed.
A Tennessee sheriff’s department has agreed to pay $41,000 in attorney fees and damages to settle a suit by American Atheists over a “He is risen” Facebook comment on Easter.
Updated: The Satanic Temple is planning to introduce an “After School Satan Club” in elementary schools that will “focus on free inquiry and rationalism.”
A Wiccan who wanted to wear a pentacle medallion small enough to comply with prison jewelry regulations may wear the necklace pending resolution of his lawsuit, a federal appeals court…
The American Civil Liberties Union is vowing to file constitutional challenges to several policies of Donald Trump if he should win election and implement them.
A federal judge has blocked a Mississippi law that protects those who discriminate based on a religious belief against gay marriage, premarital sex and transgender recognition.
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