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Looking Back: A Snapshot of Religious Liberty in 2016

The Stream
December 30, 2016 • In the News

It’s been a difficult year for religious freedom in America, but the future holds “huge windows of opportunity,” says Kelly Shackelford, constitutional attorney and president of the non-profit religious liberty law firm First Liberty Institute.

First Liberty Institute Appeals Historic Military Religious Freedom Case to The Supreme Court

First Liberty just asked the Supreme Court to hear what could be the biggest military religious freedom case in decades.
December 27, 2016 • Press Releases

WASHINGTON, DC – First Liberty Institute and nationally renowned litigator Paul Clement announce they have filed a petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court, asking the Supreme Court to accept the case of Sterling v. United States. The case centers around the question of how the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) […]

Merry Christmas & Thank You

From Kelly Shackelford and the entire team at First Liberty Institute!
December 22, 2016 •

A thank you and 2016 Christmas greeting from Kelly Shackelford, First Liberty CEO. Please take a few minutes to hear six of our clients express what your support means.

Young Catholic Immigrant Files Charge Alleging Religious Discrimination

Houston health care company fires Alexia Palma for being unwilling to promote contraception
December 21, 2016 • Press Releases

Houston, Texas – Today, on behalf of its client, Alexia Palma, First Liberty Institute filed a legal complaint with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charging Palma’s former employers, Legacy Community Health (LCH), with religious discrimination. In the complaint, Palma, a young Catholic woman, says that her employers fired […]

bladensburg cross

Could moving a giant cross or cutting off its arms resolve a 1st Amendment case?

MSN
December 8, 2016 •

The fate of a 40-foot-tall cross that dominates a busy Maryland intersection provoked impassioned debate in a federal courtroom Wednesday, at one point including a question about whether cutting off the arms of the cross might resolve the legal issues.

Nation’s Largest Veterans Service Organizations Asks Federal Appeals Court to Affirm Constitutionality of Ninety-Year-Old Veterans Memorial

The American Legion asks the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit to uphold constitutionality of the Bladensburg World War I Veterans Memorial
December 7, 2016 • Press Releases

RICHMOND, VA, December 7, 2016 – Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit heard the case regarding the constitutionality of the Bladensburg World War I Veterans Memorial. On November 15, 2015, the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland ruled that the ninety-year-old veterans memorial was […]

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