First Liberty Institute, Williams & Connolly, and Church State Council filed an opening brief at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on behalf of eight Redmond, Washington firefighters who were denied religious accommodations from the COVID-19 vaccine and ultimately fired for their faith.
First Liberty Institute and the law firm McGuireWoods LLP sent an application to the Army Board for Correction of Military Records on behalf of Lt. Col. Joseph Lawhorn, a veteran Ranger-qualified chaplain, asking the Army to take immediate action to remove adverse information from Lawhorn’s promotion board file and from every official record in which it appears.
First Liberty Institute and Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner, LLP settled the lawsuit on behalf of LifeWise Academy against the Everett, Washington school district.
First Liberty Institute and the law firms Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP and Holtzman Vogel PLLC filed a complaint and motion for preliminary injunction against the City of Tucson, AZ on behalf of David Hoffman, a local resident who was threatened with arrest and forced into a confined, remote zone for sharing his faith at the Winterhaven Festival of Lights.
The Supreme Court of the United States declined to review a decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit finding that the Snohomish Regional Fire and Rescue (“SRFR”) can refuse religious accommodation to eight firefighters known as the Snohomish Eight.
Today, the Supreme Court of the United States agreed to review a decision by the Kentucky Supreme Court denying the Missionaries of St. John the Baptist the right to build a modest shrine for quiet prayer and reflection on their own property.
