Today, on behalf of Crosspoint Church and Bangor Christian Schools (“BCS”), attorneys for First Liberty Institute and Consovoy McCarthy urged the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit during oral argument to reverse a lower court decision upholding a Maine law passed after Maine lost in Carson v. Makin, which the state designed to prevent religious schools from participating in its school choice program.
This week, a panel of judges on the Court of Appeals of Ohio, Sixth Appellate District, granted an Ohio church’s motion to stay the preliminary injunction pending appeal, finding that the motion “asserted a reasonable question of law” on a matter of constitutional law. The decision allows Dad’s Place, a Bryan, Ohio church, to continue its temporary shelter ministry while the case continues on appeal. First Liberty Institute and the law firms Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP and Spengler Nathanson PLL represent Dad’s Place.
First Liberty Institute and the law firm Sidley Austin L.L.P. today announced that the City of Daytona Beach repealed the ordinance challenged by Seventh-Day Baptist Church of Daytona’s federal lawsuit.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.
The city of Bryan, Ohio has been waging a war against Dad’s Place Church, one of the only places where needy people can go to get out of the cold at night.
Ron Hittle was a dedicated first responder for almost 25 years. When he attended a world class leadership conference with a few of his team members, he was fired. His crime? The conference was held at a church.
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