Today, the Texas State Board of Education adopted new curriculum guidelines that include optional religious education for elementary school students.
First Liberty Institute today urged the Texas State Board of Education to adopt new curriculum guidelines that include optional religious education for elementary school students.
Several religious organizations, including The Jewish Coalition for Religious Liberty, The American Hindu Coalition, Muslim Public Affairs Council, and Samaritan’s Purse, joined other organizations by filing “friend-of-the court” briefs urging the Supreme Court of the United States to reverse a lower court decision that upheld the City of Stockton’s firing of long-time fire chief Ron Hittle, after attending a leadership conference held in a church.
Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit issued an administrative stay, blocking the district court’s attempt to enjoin Louisiana’s Ten Commandments law.
Attorneys for First Liberty Institute and Greenberg Traurig LLP today asked 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.
On behalf of the Oklahoma State Superintendent of Public Instruction, the Department of Education, and the State Board of Education, First Liberty Institute and the law firm Spencer Fane filed a friend-of-the-court brief asking the Supreme Court of the United States to hear Oklahoma Statewide Charter School Board v. Drummond, a case involving the constitutionality of the Oklahoma Charter School Board’s approval of St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School for inclusion as a charter-school.
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