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In court ruling, Sikh recruits can attend USMC training while keeping beards and turbans
By Alejandra Molina — December 23, 2022
(RNS) — 'No one should have to choose between serving God and country,' said Eric Baxter, an attorney with a religious liberty legal group that is representing the Sikh recruits.
Apaches get rehearing in fight to preserve Oak Flat, a sacred site in Arizona
By Alejandra Molina — November 17, 2022
(RNS) — ‘The government protects historical churches and other important religious landmarks, and our site deserves no less protection,’ Apache Stronghold founder Wendsler Nosie Sr. said.
Judge dismisses SPU lawsuit aimed at halting probe into university’s hiring practices
By Alejandra Molina — October 27, 2022
(RNS) — The ruling shows that Seattle Pacific University, a private school associated with the Free Methodist Church, ‘is not above the law,’ said Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson.
Cross in seal of Pa. county ‘plainly constitutional,’ rules appeals court
By Adelle M. Banks — August 8, 2019
(RNS) — The appellate court ruled that the so-called Lemon test, which it noted has been ignored in some similar past cases, does not apply in the seal case.
Atheist watchdog drops fight to halt clergy housing allowance
By Adelle M. Banks — June 18, 2019
(RNS) — The Freedom From Religion Foundation said it hopes its strategy will allow the issue to be reconsidered when the high court has a different makeup.
Religiously affiliated hospitals win Supreme Court pension case
By Lauren Markoe — June 5, 2017
(RNS) The hospitals — two with Catholic and one with Lutheran ties — successfully argued that pension laws were not intended to apply to them.
NJ mosque wins $3.25 million in settlement in discrimination case
By Lauren Markoe — May 30, 2017
(RNS) The mosque met every local zoning requirement but the town made up new ones that applied to no other religious community.
Religiously affiliated hospital pensions at the center of Supreme Court case
By Lauren Markoe — March 27, 2017
(RNS) A 'sleeper' of a case before the Supreme Court pits three hospitals against employees who object to the institutions' religious exemption from the federal law that safeguards pensions.
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