Mehdi v. United States Postal Service
Post offices are not required to include crescent and star symbols alongside Christmas and Hanukkah decorations in recognition…
United States v. Essex County, New Jersey
The Department of Justice filed suit alleging Essex County discriminated against a Muslim corrections officer by refusing to…
1995 Federal Labor Court (Germany) Scientology Decision
Scientology is neither a religion nor an ideology but rather a business and is therefore subject to business…
Boissoin v. Lund
A letter to the editor expressing views on homosexual-rights curricula is legitimate expression protected by freedom of speech…
First Baptist Church of Ferndale v. City of Ferndale
A church has the right to use its property to provide charitable social services to the poor under…
United States v. Carolene Products
In Footnote Four, Justice Harlan Stone established that laws discriminating against minorities, distorting the political process, or facially…
Perry v. Hollingsworth
Appeal of Perry v. Schwarzenegger pending before the U.S. Supreme Court regarding the constitutionality of Proposition 8.
Bollard v. California Province of the Society of Jesus
A ministerial exception to statutory employment requirements protects religious organizations' employment decisions regarding their ministers from government intrusion.
Rosas v. Corp. of the Catholic Archbishop of Seattle
The ministerial exception bars employment discrimination claims by seminarians against the Catholic Church for overtime wage violations under…
Jeffrey Reed v. International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America
The Supreme Court declined to hear a challenge to a UAW policy requiring employees who objected to joining…