First Liberty Institute and the National Center for Law & Policy agreed to end their lawsuit against the Encinitas (CA) Union School District after it agreed to change its policies to provide notification and opt-outs to parents and students when promoting gender ideology or any material that substantially interferes with families’ religious beliefs and pay Plaintiffs an undisclosed amount.
First Liberty Institute today congratulates former counsel Christine Pratt on her appointment by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis to the Florida Fifth District Court of Appeal.
Today, First Liberty Institute, Troutman Pepper Locke LLP, and Independence Law Center presented oral argument at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit on behalf of Holy Trinity Ukrainian Catholic Church, a church wrongfully denied the ability to build a shrine on its property by Collier Township.
Attorneys for Schaerr | Jaffe LLP and First Liberty Institute filed their initial brief at the Supreme Court of the United States on behalf of a group of parents urging the Justices to reverse a decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit that prevents parents from challenging Washington state laws that strip parents of their rights if they refuse to affirm their runaway child’s claimed “gender identity.”
Several organizations, including the Association on American Indian Affairs, the Comanche Nation, the Jewish Coalition for Religious Liberty, and the Sikh Coalition and others, are asking the Supreme Court of the United States to take up a case that would stop the City of San Antonio from destroying a worship site sacred to the Native American Church.
First Liberty Institute, Foley & Lardner LLP, and the Harvard Law School Religious Freedom Clinic sent a demand letter to Mille Lacs County, Minnesota on behalf of two Amish congregations that are being discriminated against by the county through draconian zoning and permit schemes, making it virtually impossible for the Amish to live according to their sincerely held religious beliefs.
