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.
Late yesterday, Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost submitted a friend-of-the-court brief supporting Dad’s Place, a Bryan, Ohio church keeping its doors open 24-hours a day, seven days a week that has been harassed by city officials for allegedly violating the city’s fire code.
First Liberty Institute, along with C. Kevin Marshall and Michael Bradley from Jones Day, sent a letter to officials at the Waterville Central School District in New York on behalf of their client, an eighth-grade student, demanding that the school officially recognize a Bible club as required by law and the U.S. Constitution.
 |
|
|
