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The future of religious schools in America could hinge on the outcome of one case currently before the United States Supreme Court — Gloucester County School Board v. G.G. First Liberty filed a brief on Tuesday, September 27 on behalf of religious educational institutions and educators, asking the Court to […]

A few days before the Jewish New Year of Rosh Hashanah, observed this year on October 2, an extremist special interest group filed a federal lawsuit to stop a small Jewish synagogue in California from partaking in a traditional ceremony to be carried out shortly thereafter. The kaporos (“atonement”) ceremony […]

Coach Joe Kennedy is ready to leave the bleachers and get back on the sidelines as football coach. First Liberty is pulling out all the legal stops to make that happen sooner rather than later. First Liberty filed an appeal before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit […]

On September 19, 2016, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit held that the Rowan County commissioners can continue to open their court sessions in prayer. In a 2-1 ruling, the court held that the district court erred in ruling the practice unconstitutional and reversed and remanded the […]

First Liberty is defending one woman’s right to pray in her own home. That right — guaranteed by the First Amendment’s Free Exercise clause — was violated one night when police officers entered the home of Mary Anne Sause of Louisburg, Kansas and told her to “stop praying” without any […]

Private organizations and individuals have a right to pray on public property. That’s what First Liberty is contending in a lawsuit on behalf of Cambridge Christian School (CCS) of Tampa, Florida. Filed Tuesday, the lawsuit challenges a ban that prevented CCS and its opponent from opening their state football championship […]