The court deadlocked in a case that would have created the first religious charter school, but two other significant religion ...

The Supreme Court's docket this term includes many of the complex issues American society is currently facing, including ...

The Reds could lose a pair of lefties due to clauses in their contracts tomorrow. Read more at MLB Trade Rumors.

Roman Catholic bishops from the state of Washington have filed a lawsuit challenging a new law that forces them to violate ...

Former Catholics comprise the largest group of residents challenging the statues of the patron saints of police officers and firefighters in Quincy, Massachusetts.

The first day of June marks the centennial of Pierce v. Society of Sisters, a landmark civil liberties decision in which the ...

Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue, June 2020 — SCOTUS found the Montana Supreme Court violated the free exercise clause of the First Amendment by invalidating a private school choice ...

there were “state equivalents to the Free Exercise clause” in the U.S. Constitution that would have been obvious sources of litigation. Yet, as Gorsuch forcefully noted, “there were no ...

Its "establishment clause" prohibits the government from establishing or endorsing any particular religion or promoting religion over nonreligion. Its "free exercise" clause protects the right to ...

Those provisions are respectively known as the establishment clause and the free exercise clause. Together, they form the bulwark of American religious freedom. Working in tandem, the two clauses ...

This court has "repeatedly" held that "a state violates the free exercise clause when it excludes religious observers from otherwise available public benefits," Campbell said Wednesday.

While the Establishment Clause prohibits state endorsement of religion or preference for one religion over another, the Free Exercise Clause outlaws religious discrimination. Lawyers for St ...