7th Circuit Reinstates RLUIPA Claim, Confirms Constitutionality

In an Appeals Court decision penned by Judge Richard Posner, the 7th Circuit reinstated a lawsuit improperly dismissed by a lower court. Chicago's World Outreach Center cites RLUIPA along with its claim that the city discriminated against the religious...

Tampa City Council Prayers Questioned

Tampa, Florida joins the ranks of cities whose practice of opening City Council meetings with prayer is being challenged (see this year's Top Ten Religious Liberty Stories for more). A letter from the Freedom From Religion Foundation warns that the tradition...

Final Holiday Display Story of the Year?

A federal judge this week refused to lift a ban on a nativity scene display in the median of a heavily trafficked road in Warren. The Plaintiff, John Satawa, argues that the Macomb County Commission's refusal of his display amounts to an unconstitutional hostility...

Lawsuit Challenges Private Schools’ Use of Public Land

Pawtucket, Rhode Island is the site of a new lawsuit, profiled this weekend as a church-state dispute by the Washington Post, over the issue of public aid to private and religious schools. Here, the story is not tuition vouchers but the use of public land. Plaintiffs...