Press Releases

Marine Who Was Dishonorably Discharged for Posting a Bible Verse Appealed to The Supreme Court

Independent Journal Review
December 25, 2016 • In the News

Lance Corporal Monifa Sterling was charged with disrespecting a superior commissioned officer and four counts of disobeying a lawful order after she refused to remove a Bible verse from her desk.

Nation’s Largest Veterans Service Organizations Asks Federal Appeals Court to Affirm Constitutionality of Ninety-Year-Old Veterans Memorial

The American Legion asks the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit to uphold constitutionality of the Bladensburg World War I Veterans Memorial
December 7, 2016 • Press Releases

RICHMOND, VA, December 7, 2016 – Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit heard the case regarding the constitutionality of the Bladensburg World War I Veterans Memorial. On November 15, 2015, the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland ruled that the ninety-year-old veterans memorial was […]

High School Football Coaches to Court: If We Have the Right to Kneel to Protest InJustice, Coach Kennedy Has the Right to Kneel in Prayer

NFL players and high school football coaches file briefs in support of Coach Kennedy at the Ninth Circuit
November 8, 2016 • Press Releases

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 […]

Yom Kippur Victory: Judge Lifts Restraining Order off of Orthodox Jewish Synagogue

At an emergency hearing held only hours before Yom Kippur starts, Judge André Birotte, Jr. restores right of Jewish synagogue members to practice a historic religious ritual
October 12, 2016 • Press Releases

Irvine, Calif. – Late Tuesday afternoon, U.S. District Court judge André Birotte, Jr. lifted a temporary restraining order that had been issued against the Chabad of Irvine, a small Orthodox Jewish synagogue. The order had prevented the synagogue’s members from fully practicing a traditional Yom Kippur ritual called a kaporos […]

Rabbi performs ceremony

Animal-Rights Groups Are Targeting a Jewish Ritual on Yom Kippur

The Atlantic
October 11, 2016 • In the News

A lawsuit in California and violent protests in Brooklyn have focused on the practice of ritual chicken slaughter. Read full article »

Chicken coup

Federal judge lifts temporary ban on ritual slaughter of chickens, minutes before start of Yom Kippur

LA Times
October 11, 2016 • In the News

With just minutes remaining before the beginning of the Jewish holiday Yom Kippur at sunset, a federal judge on Tuesday lifted a temporary restraining order that had banned the slaughter of chickens as part of an ancient atonement rite but allowed the lawsuit that triggered the order to go forward. Read full article »

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