Employment Law
Court rules Title VII parties can recover fees on procedural wins
The Supreme Court's ruling in CRST Van Lines v. EEOC (5/19/16) allows potential award of attorney fees even…
Current Events
Venezuela – Tracking the disintegration of a socialist utopia
Venezuela's dream of a socialist utopia is quickly disintegrating. How did it get to this point? Will religious…
Land Use
Religious Property Dispute- Katy Perry v. the Nuns v. a Restaurateur v. the Archdiocese
Last year, the Los Angeles Archdiocese agreed to sell a former convent belonging to the Sisters of the…
Abortion / Contraception
Abortionists deny the humanity of the preborn
Since the pro-life movement is usually the one accused of always using religious arguments, it seems surprising that…
Current Events
Supreme Court to decide if religious hospital pensions are subject to ERISA
Last week the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear three cases involving whether the pension plans of religiously…
Current Events
Supreme Court hears oral arguments in key contraception mandate case
This morning the eight-member United States Supreme Court heard the contraceptive mandate cases that were consolidated under the…
Religious Institutions
Legal Analysis: Zubik petitioners may have pushed argument too far
By Jason Hines, PhD, JD - Prior to 1990, the Supreme Court’s standard in determining whether a law…
International
Message of Christ offers hope amidst month’s violence and persecution
March 2016 has been punctuated by violence. On March 4, a group of terrorists attacked a convent and…
Civil Rights
Op-Ed: Do Your Homework
By Jason Hines, Ph.D., J.D. - One of the unfortunate things about the discussion that occurs whenever a…
Church and State
Key California Assembly Committee scheduled to hear SB 1146
On August 3, 2016, the California Assembly Appropriations Committee is scheduled to consider a bill that religious groups…