…potential impact of the Oklahoma Supreme Court’s decision on charter schools, the parental choice movement, and the Child Benefit Test that emerged in 1947 in Everson v. Board of Education….
““[E]ven in a pandemic, the Constitution cannot be put away and forgotten:” Banning Communal Worship Poses Continuing Threats to Religious Freedom” by Charles J. Russo
…Church v. Newsom.34https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/022621zr_1bo2.pdf The Supreme Court, in an unsigned opinion with a six-to-three split identical to the one in South Bay, with all Justices retaining their original positions, ordered the…
“LGBTQ+ Rights v. Religious Claims: Navigating the Tensions between RFRA and Title VII” by Adelaide Madera
…Supreme Court’s possibility and applied it to an actual case. Furthermore, referring to earlier Supreme Court’s decisions in Fulton v. City of Philadelphia and Gonzales v. O Centro Espírita Beneficente…
“303 Creative v. Elenis, Groff v. DeJoy and the Difference a Sentence Can Make” by Mark Satta
…a single sentence from a previous Supreme Court ruling, TWA v. Hardison. In Hardison, the Court stated that requiring Trans World Airlines (TWA) “to bear more than a de minimis…
“Prayer is Everywhere” by Leslie Griffin
…of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.” Or maybe the problem lies in the wording of the amendment itself. Establishment or free exercise? The Supreme Court has set numerous…
“Religious Liberty and Social Equality in the Aftermath of Fulton v. Philadelphia” by Kenneth Townsend
…to Cover, the Court missed an important opportunity to articulate the values and principles that guided the Court’s ruling: [T]he force of the Court’s interpretation…is very weak….The Court assumes a…
“COVID-19, Childhood Vaccinations, and Religious Freedom: A Looming Issue” by Charles J. Russo & P. T. Babie
…then almost 300-year old way of life. While reiterating that states could enact reasonable regulations over basic education, in balancing the competing interests, the Supreme Court afforded greater weight to…
“An EU Law on Religion – A Recent Development” by Emma Ahlm
…a secular court are phrased by the Court of Human Rights and transposed to the Union setting by the Court of Justice. Such limits relate to theological disputes and the…
“Religious Charter Schools: A New Horizon for the Establishment Clause and School Choice” by Charles J. Russo
…to oral arguments before the Supreme Court of Oklahoma which occurred on April 2, 2024, over whether it can open this fall. This essay considers issues surrounding whether the school…
“A ‘Revolutionized’ Supreme Court Term” by Steven K. Green
…church-state matters, and he regularly collaborates on amicus curiae briefs at the US Supreme Court. Recommended Citation Green, Steven K. “A ‘Revolutionized’ Supreme Court Term.” Canopy Forum, July 29, 2022. https://canopyforum.org/2022/07/29/a-revolutionized-supreme-court-term/….