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Moorish Science Defenses To Neglect Charges Rejected 27 Aug 2013 | 05:57 pm
In In re A.E. & D., 2013 Ill. App. Unpub. LEXIS 1873 (IL App., Aug. 26, 2013), an Illinois appeals court rejected several religion-based defenses raised by the mother of two children who was found unf...
City Was Premature In Acting Against Church's Feared Homeless Encampment 27 Aug 2013 | 04:10 pm
In New Life Evangelistic Center v. City of St. Louis, 2013 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 120783 (ED MO, Aug. 26, 2013), a Missouri federal district court refused to dismiss a lawsuit by a church that claimed its d...
Pastafarian Wears "Religious" Headgear In Texas Driver's License Photo 27 Aug 2013 | 04:05 pm
Apparently the state of Texas has no problem with individuals wearing religious headgear in their driver's license photos. Daily Caller reported yesterday that Texas Tech University student Eddie Cas...
Federal Court Says S.C. Episcopal Diocese Controversy Should Be Resolved In State Court 27 Aug 2013 | 04:00 pm
In vonRosenberg v. Lawrence, (D SC, Aug. 23, 2013), a South Carolina federal district court declined to exercise jurisdiction over a trademark infringement case growing out of the ongoing controversy ...
Egyptian Military Enlists Clerics To Justify Violence Against Morsi Supporters 26 Aug 2013 | 05:46 pm
The New York Times reports in a front-page article today that the Egyptian military has begun a propaganda campaign using Muslim scholars to prevent insubordination among soldiers and police. Sometime...
Recent Articles of Interest 26 Aug 2013 | 05:02 pm
From SSRN: Bernard M. Levinson & Michael Bartos, 'This is the Manner of the Remission': Legal Exegesis and Eschatological Syntax in 11QMelchizedek, (Journal of Biblical Literature 132:2 (2013): 351-3...
Journal of Law and Religion Moves To New Editorial Home At Emory 26 Aug 2013 | 04:10 pm
National Jurist reports this month that the Journal of Law and Religion, previously published at Hamline University School of Law, has moved to a new editorial home at Emory University. In a "refreshe...
Quebec Values Charter Proposal Will Ban Sikh, Muslim and Jewish Religious Head Coverings For Public Employees 26 Aug 2013 | 04:10 pm
In the Canadian province of Quebec, the ruling Party Quebecois plans to introduce a Charter of Quebec Values which, among other things, will ban public employees from wearing religious head coverings...
Recent Prisoner Free Exercise Cases 25 Aug 2013 | 09:40 pm
In Hazle v. Crofoot, (9th Cir., Aug. 23, 2013), the 9th Circuit held that an inmate whose parole was revoked after he refused to participate in a faith-based drug treatment program is entitled to comp...
RLUIPA-- Indecipherable By "Normal People"? 25 Aug 2013 | 08:53 pm
Those who deal on a regular basis with issues under the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Person Act sometimes forget that the statute can be perplexing to lawyers and judges who do not regular...
