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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…...
Recent Articles of Interest
1+ week, 5+ day ago (225+ words) From SSRN:Joshua McDaniel, Courts and Commanders: Regulating Religious Freedom in the Military, (August 24, 2026).John M. Breen & Lee J. Strang, Jesuit Identity in American Legal Education: An Historical Examen, (July 23, 2026).Jon D. Michaels & Mathew Segal, Misdiagnosing Anti-Jewish Animus: How the Judiciary's Approach to…...
USCIRF Urges Sanctions Against India During Visit of Hindutva Leader
2+ week, 1+ day ago (153+ words) As reported by The Hindu, India's Mohan Bhagwat, head of the Hindu nationalist Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) organization, arrived in the United States on Tuesday as part of RSS's 100th anniversary global outreach efforts. He is scheduled to speak to an…...
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....
Two Cert. Petitions Raising Issues of State Aid for Religious Instruction Filed
3+ week, 1+ day ago (367+ words) Two petitions for certiorari raising First Amendment issues were filed this week with the U.S. Supreme Court. Both involve the permissibility of state aid for religious instruction.A petition (full text) asking the Court to review a Virginia federal district court's…...
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…...
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…...