First Liberty Institute and the law firm Sidley Austin L.L.P. today announced that the City of Daytona Beach repealed the ordinance challenged by Seventh-Day Baptist Church of Daytona’s federal lawsuit.
Several religious institutions and leaders including the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), Coalition for Jewish Values, Patrick Henry College, and the Association of Christian Schools International have filed “friend-of-the-court” briefs urging the Supreme Court of the United States to reverse a lower court decision that forced Bethesda University to include board members who do not follow their firmly held, religious beliefs.
First Liberty Institute, along with C. Kevin Marshall and Michael Bradley from Jones Day, announced today that the Waterville Central School District will now allow the student-led Bible club to meet as a school-sponsored club along with all current non-curricular clubs.
First Liberty Institute sent a letter to Georgia State University President Dr. M. Brian Blake and Dean Dr. Barbara Johnson on behalf of Stephen Atkerson after a university representative and three armed police officers forced him to end a conversation with a GSU student outside the school dining area because of the religious content of the conversation.
The law firm Gibson Dunn today filed a friend-of-the-court brief on behalf of First Liberty Institute at the Texas Supreme Court in Paxton v Annunciation House, a lawsuit brought against a religious non-profit.
An amended complaint challenging an effort by the Village of Atlantic Beach to exclude Chabad of the Beaches, a Hasidic Jewish organization, from opening a religious center in the Village reveals that in private messages, the Village’s top officials acknowledged—often in crudely antisemitic language—that their actions were motivated by animus towards Hasidic and Orthodox Jews.
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