589 ABA Journal Religious Law articles.
Updated: While serious sins used to be a matter of individual misbehavior, in a global world they are often more political in nature and thus can affect large numbers of…
Mar 10, 2008 6:58 PM CDT
In an unassuming office park in a quiet Chicago suburb, six lawyers are planning a revolution. The six are American women of the Muslim faith, and they have started what…
Mar 1, 2008 9:14 AM CST
An analyst with a Washington research group has scoured 888 court decisions involving Muslims and discerned the trends. The United States is winning many terrorism-related prosecutions against religiously inspired defendants.…
Feb 19, 2008 7:25 PM CST
In yet another example of a growing cultural clash between local practices and the religious rights of Muslim immigrants that has become a hot-button issue in a number of non-Islamic…
Feb 14, 2008 1:27 AM CST
Child custody disputes involving religion are increasing, creating quandaries for judges who don’t want to favor one faith over another.
Ronald William Nelson, chair of the ABA Family Law Section’s…
Feb 13, 2008 6:45 PM CST
Updated: The Archbishop of Canterbury is front-page news throughout the United Kingdom today, facing a firestorm of criticism even from his own bishops following his reported call for Britain, at…
Feb 8, 2008 4:46 PM CST
Federal corrections officers cannot be sued for losing an inmate’s property, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled.
The 5-4 ruling held that the officers have immunity under the Federal Tort…
Jan 22, 2008 7:12 PM CST
Individuals Melody Moezzi contacted about publishing her first book wanted the Emory University law graduate to interview a terrorist.
But for Moezzi, that was just one more reason to write…
Jan 18, 2008 6:12 PM CST
The controversial leader of a fringe Mormon sect in Utah that advocates polygamy was sentenced today to two consecutive terms of five years to life, following his conviction earlier this…
Nov 20, 2007 10:32 PM CST
Formerly sealed documents detailing jailhouse phone calls made by the leader of a controversial fringe sect of the Mormon church that advocates polygamy were released Tuesday by a Utah court.
…Nov 1, 2007 7:33 PM CDT
In a case that has attracted national interest, an Ohio woman is appealing a court ruling that her ex-husband doesn’t have to pay the dowry she is guaranteed in her…
Nov 1, 2007 4:21 PM CDT
Updated: A Utah jury has reached a guilty verdict in the case of a controversial church leader accused of accomplice rape for using his religious influence to pressure a 14-year-old…
Sep 25, 2007 9:47 PM CDT
After one day of deliberations, a jury in a high-profile Utah accomplice-rape trial against the leader of a fringe Mormon group reportedly was near a verdict on at least one…
Sep 25, 2007 5:42 PM CDT
Opening arguments are expected to begin today in a Utah teen-rape case that is widely seen as putting on trial not only the defendant, Warren Jeffs, but the polygamist practices…
Sep 13, 2007 4:00 PM CDT
An organized movement to allow Muslims to renounce their faith has prompted death threats and reportedly made its leader the most talked-about public figure in the Netherlands.
The campaign for…
Sep 12, 2007 6:48 PM CDT
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