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Compliance With Building Code Does Not Impose Substantial Burden on Plaintiff's Religious Exercise
1+ week, 4+ day ago (174+ words) In Hadez v. City of Springfield, Illinois, (CD IL, Aug. 28, 2026), a state trial court had ordered plaintiff to cease residing in structures on his property that inspectors found to be unsafe and in violation of the city's Building Code. The structures…...
Massachusetts Supreme Court Says Religious Statues Proposed for Public Building Violate State Constitution
3+ week, 1+ day ago (312+ words) In Fitzmaurice v. City of Quincy, (MA Sup. Jud. Ct., Aug. 20, 2026), the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court upheld a trial court's preliminary injunction barring the city of Quincy from installing two 10-foot-tall statues on the facade of a new public safety building....
2nd Circuit: Church Autonomy Doctrine Bars Defamation Suit Against Church Leaders by Former Priest
3+ week, 2+ day ago (136+ words) In Belya v. Kapral, (2d Cir., Aug. 18, 2026), a defrocked priest in the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia (ROCOR) sued church leaders and church entities for defamation. He claimed that defendants wrongly accused him of forging three letters from church leaders. The…...
Supreme Court Review Sought in Texas 10 Commandments Cases
3+ week, 4+ day ago (312+ words) A joint petition for certiorari (full text) was filed yesterday with the Supreme Court in Nathan v. Alamo Heights School District and Cribbs Ringer v. Comal Independent School District, (Sup. Ct., cert. filed 8/17/2026). In Nathan, the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, sitting en…...
Suit Claims Head of Georgian Orthodox Church in North America Is Attempting To Wrongfully Take Property of 3 Monasteries
3+ week, 5+ day ago (264+ words) Suit was filed last week in a New York federal district court against the presiding bishop of the Georgian Orthodox Church in North America by three Georgian Orthodox monasteries-- two in Maryland and one in Oklahoma. The abbots who head…...
Montana Supreme Court: Parenting Plan May Restrict Mother from Exposing Children to Cultic Religious Beliefs
1+ mon, 6+ day ago (178+ words) In In re the Marriage of Acacia Jensen and Timothy Jensen, (MT Sup. Ct., Aug. 4, 2026), the Montana Supreme Court in a 5-2 decision upheld a trial court's order modifying a parenting plan for a divorced couple's three children. The mother objected…...
Clergy Duties Do Not Excuse Compliance With Forum Selection Clause In Employment Agreement
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (182+ words) In Luzingu v. Abbott Laboratories, Inc., (D ME, July 31, 2026), a Maine federal district court rejected a claim by a Christian pastor that in a civil rights action under Title VII and state statutes against his former employer, Abbott Laboratories, he should…...
Challenge To Makeup of Religious Liberty Commission Is Dismissed
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (153+ words) In The Interfaith Alliance v. Trump, (SD NY, July 27, 2026), a New York federal district court dismissed a suit brought by several religious organizations challenging the composition of President Trump's Religious Liberty Commission. Plaintiffs contended that the makeup of the Commission violates…...
Maryland Supreme Court: Ecclesiastical Abstention Doctrine Does Not Apply to Eviction of Defrocked Bishop From Parsonage
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (204+ words) In Eritrean Orthodox Tweahdo Diocese of USA and Canada v. Sinoda, (MD Sup. Ct., July 23, 2026), the Maryland Supreme Court held that the ecclesiastical abstention doctrine does not apply to a wrongful detainer action by a church seeking to evict a defrocked…...
Justice Department Updates Guidance to Federal Agencies on Protecting Religious Liberty
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (332+ words) Yesterday, the Attorney General issued a 26-page Memorandum to Executive Departments and Agencies (full text) on Federal Law Protections for Religious Liberty. The Memorandum updates and expands one issued in 2017 (see prior posting). According to a Justice Department press release:…...