The Supreme Court of the United States today decided 8-1 in Chiles v. Salazar, that a Colorado law banning licensed counselors discussing certain types of counseling with minors is unconstitutional. The ban barred professional counselors like Petitioner Kaley Chiles from engaging in religiously-based talk therapy with her clients if she does not provide the “gender affirming” perspective the state requires.
The Court of Appeals of the Ninth District of Texas at Beaumont issued an opinion determining that Grace Community Church of Woodlands, TX has valid religious liberty claims that the Southern Montgomery County Municipal Utility District charged excessive water connection fees during the construction of its new facility. Attorneys from First Liberty Institute represent the church.
First Liberty Institute and the law firm Sturgill Turner filed a charge of discrimination with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) against local Louisville coffee shop chain, Heine Brothers, on behalf of former employee and current college student, Paige Rogers.
First Liberty Institute and the law firms Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP and Michael Best & Friedrich LLP submitted a brief on behalf of The Summit Church-Homestead Heights Baptist Church (Chatham, NC) asking the court to uphold the district court’s decision applying the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (“RLUIPA”) to bar a county’s decision to unfairly deny the church’s building plans.
Today, a federal lawsuit was filed against the Oklahoma Statewide Charter School Board (“SCSB”) by the National Ben Gamla Jewish Charter School Foundation after the board rejected Ben Gamla’s application for a state charter school.
Representing the Tarrant County Commissioners Court, First Liberty Institute sent a letter to the Freedom from Religion Foundation (“FFRF”) affirming that a permanent monument of the Ten Commandments placed on the grounds of the historic, 1895 Tarrant County Courthouse is constitutional.
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