In Doe v. Boyertown Area School District, (ED PA, Aug. 25, 2017), a Pennsylvania federal district court refused to issue a preliminary injunction to bar a school district from continuing its year-old practice of allowing transgender students to use the bathrooms and locker rooms corresponding to...
Month: September 2017
8th Circuit: OK To Ban Religious Leafleting On Plaza of Sports Arena
In Ball v. City of Lincoln, Nebraska, (8th Cir., Aug. 29, 2017), the U.S. 8th Circuit Court of Appeals held that the city did not infringe the free speech rights of a city resident who insisted on handing out Christian religious literature in the plaza area of a municipal sports arena to those...
An Unusual Prisoner Case Finds NGE Should Be Held To Be A Religion
In a somewhat surprising prisoner free exercise decision this week, a Virginia federal district court held that the Virginia Department of Corrections violated RLUIPA and the First Amendment when it refused to recognize the Nations of Gods and Earths (NGE) as a religion and instead designated it a...
U. Miami Offers Full Scholarships to DACA Students
Sacramento OK’s plan to pay gang members $1.5 million for “peace”
In other, normal states, the concept would be called
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