Coach Kennedy

Watch this recent interview of Coach Kennedy and Lathan Watts, FLI’s Director of Legal Communications, who recently appeared on the Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN) to discuss the roadmap to a future victory in this historic legal battle.

By: Mike Berry, Deputy General Counsel and Director of Military Affairs for First Liberty Institute The Supreme Court decided last week to not review the case of Joe Kennedy, a Washington state football coach who was fired for praying with his players. But the game isn’t over yet. We have reason to […]

By: Jeremy Dys, Deputy General Counsel for First Liberty Institute In what is perhaps the most perplexing intrusion upon the religious liberty of a football coach in modern memory, the Bremerton School District in Washington state fired Coach Joe Kennedy for taking a knee after the game in 15 seconds worth of […]

Kelly Shackelford, Mike Berry and First Liberty client, Coach Joe Kennedy discuss the latest on the Bremerton, Washington case.

What Joe Kennedy thought would be a routine jog in 2007 became the first leg on a journey leading him into coaching and eventually to becoming a central figure in the fight to preserve America’s religious liberties.

Tacoma, Wash. – Two high-profile amicus briefs were filed with the U.S. Court of Appeals on Monday evening on behalf of Coach Joe Kennedy, a high school football coach who was fired for taking a knee at the fifty-yard line and offering a brief, private prayer after high school football […]