Month: December 2017
Trent Franks Will Resign After Asking Female Staff to Bear His Child
UPDATE: He is resigning immediately after his wife was admitted to a hospital on Friday. Source: http://lslink.info/?c=29vf
Recent Articles of Interest
From SSRN:Ronald Niezen, Power Through Testimony: Reframing Residential Schools in the Age of Reconciliation (Foreword), (March 2017, ISBN: 978-0774833899).Katherine M. Franke
Recent Prisoner Free Exercise Cases
In Eckstrom v. Beard, (9th Cir., Nov. 30, 2017), the 9th Circuit affirmed the dismissal of an inmate's claim that the prison's book policy violates his free exercise rights.In Shaw v. Kaemingk, 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 195018 (D SD, Nov. 28, 2017), a South Dakota federal district court allowed an...
Suit Challenges Illinois Law Allowing Public Funds to Be Used To Cover Abortions
Last week, various Illinois right-to-life groups and several Illinois legislators filed a taxpayer lawsuit in state court challenging House Bill 40 which is scheduled to go into effect on January 1. The bill eliminates the prior ban on coverage for abortions by the state employees' insurance...
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