582 ABA Journal Religious Law articles.
Gearing up for a First Amendment battle, several pastors in Orange County, Calif., joined dozens of others across the nation yesterday in preaching politics.
A conservative legal group in Arizona,…
Sep 29, 2008 6:04 PM CDT
Tattoos and body piercing are gaining increasing acceptance, but employers have a right to ban their workers from sporting them.
In case after case, courts have found no legal right…
Sep 25, 2008 1:13 PM CDT
A lawyer and Illinois state representative has filed new court papers in McHenry County, on the outskirts of the Chicago suburbs, for citing his law firm over a sign that…
Sep 22, 2008 10:50 PM CDT
Islamic law now has legal effect in the United Kingdom, under a 1996 arbitration statute that recognizes the rulings of a network of five Shariah courts.
Although there was a…
Sep 19, 2008 5:55 PM CDT
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of four guards at New York’s Grand Central Station who were disciplined for failing to tuck their dreadlocks…
Sep 18, 2008 1:05 PM CDT
A powerful secret group of wealthy warrior monks active in the Middle Ages had been maligned for centuries, remembered for accusations of heresy and sexual misconduct.
But last year the…
Aug 18, 2008 6:25 PM CDT
For George Michael, a cross placed on the side of his $3 million lakefront mansion in suburban Chicago resulted in a tax break of almost $80,000.
But now officials in…
Jul 17, 2008 7:43 PM CDT
Updated: Leaders of the Mormon church excommunicated yesterday the creator of a beefcake calendar that features male missionaries still wearing their traditional black trousers, but not necessarily their traditional white…
Jul 14, 2008 7:41 PM CDT
A federal appeals court has ruled that the Fair Housing Act does not protect the right of condominium owners to display mezuzot on their doorframes.
The Chicago-based 7th U.S. Circuit…
Jul 11, 2008 11:05 AM CDT
A Minnesota judge has upheld a restraining order banning a teenager with autism from his local Catholic church, which contends he is dangerous to other parishioners.
“Todd County District Judge…
Jul 1, 2008 6:14 PM CDT
A Texas grand jury apparently investigating alleged sexual abuse of girls by a polygamous religious sect reportedly tried to call an attorney for one 16-year-old, Natalie Malonis, to testify yesterday.
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Although many people don’t realize it, Islamic law is being applied on a daily basis in the United Kingdom.
That’s because Muslims who wish to live their lives in compliance…
Jun 21, 2008 12:44 AM CDT
Updated: As parents Monday began picking up more than 400 children found to have been taken improperly from a Texas ranch run by a polygamous sect of which they are…
Jun 3, 2008 10:22 PM CDT
After a Texas Supreme Court ruling Thursday that officials overstepped its authority by removing some 468 children from their homes at a ranch run by a religious sect that advocates…
Jun 2, 2008 7:58 PM CDT
DNA samples reportedly have been taken from Warren Jeffs, the jailed leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, in a separate Texas criminal investigation related…
May 30, 2008 11:56 PM CDT
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