Law firm Lawson Huck Gonzalez PLLC filed a friend-of-the-court brief on behalf of First Liberty Institute at the Florida Sixth District Court of Appeal enumerating the ways that the Florida Civil Rights Act (FCRA) corresponds with and differs from federal civil rights law Title VII.
First Liberty Institute Senior Research Fellow, Director of Religious Liberty in the States, and Regent University Professor Mark David Hall, along with Andrea Picciotti-Bayer, Director of the Conscience Project, recently published an article in the William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal detailing the constitutionality of the Ten Commandments in the history and tradition of the United States.
First Liberty Institute filed a friend-of-the-court brief with the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana on behalf of The Fraternal Order of Eagles. The brief supports a motion filed by Indiana Governor Mike Braun and Attorney General Todd Rokita to vacate a 2000 court order that barred a Ten Commandments monument from the Statehouse grounds.
The American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of the District of Columbia, First Liberty Institute, and the law firm of Steptoe, LLP on behalf of WallBuilder Presentations (“WallBuilders”) asked the United States District Court for the District of Columbia to strike down the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (“WMATA”) advertising restrictions on issue and religious ads as violations of the First Amendment.
Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit heard oral argument regarding the constitutionality of laws in Louisiana and Texas that require the posting of the Ten Commandments in schools.
Today, a dedication ceremony was held as a permanent monument of the Ten Commandments was placed on the grounds of the historic, 1895 Tarrant County Courthouse.