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Joe Kennedy: I’ve Got Blood in that Game

November 1, 2019 • Photos & Video

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.

Coach Kennedy to Supreme Court: Run Reverse on Ninth Circuit Decision Preventing Coach Taking a Knee

June 25, 2018 • Press Releases

First Liberty attorneys ask Court to review school district’s decision to fire coach because of his silent 15-second prayer. WASHINGTON, D.C.—Attorneys for First Liberty Institute and Kirkland & Ellis LLP today filed a petition for writ of certiorari with the Supreme Court of the United States on behalf of former high […]

Standing for the Right to Kneel

Decision Magazine
January 17, 2017 • In the News

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.

School district denies Coach’s request for religious accommodation

BREMERTON, WA, October 26, 2015
October 26, 2015 • Press Releases

Bremerton School District says Coach Joe Kennedy can’t pray alone, silently, at the fifty-yard line after football games; his attorneys announce that they will initiate legal proceedings.

High School Coach Says He Will Pray After the Game in Compliance With the Law

October 15, 2015 •

Tonight at Bremerton’s homecoming game, Coach Joe Kennedy, a Liberty Institute client, plans to personally pray at the 50-yard line following the game, as he has after every high school football game for seven years, despite the school district’s order that he stop. “The school district has no right to […]

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