Cases
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Apache Stronghold v. United States of America (9th Cir.)
Our Clinic filed an amicus brief in favor of religious liberty protections for Oak Flat, an Indigenous sacred site in Arizona being threatened with destruction.
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Jarrard v. Sheriff of Polk County (11th Cir.)
Our Clinic represents Mr. Stephen Jarrard in his appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit challenging his exclusion from a county jail’s volunteer ministry program because of his religious beliefs.
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Drummond v. Statewide Virtual Charter Board (Okla.)
Our Clinic assisted the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City and the Diocese of Tulsa in efforts to secure authorization to operate the nation's first religious charter school and is defending the school against lawsuits that seek to close its doors before they can even open.
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OKPLAC v. Statewide Virtual Charter Board (Okla. City Cnty.)
Our Clinic assisted the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City and the Diocese of Tulsa in efforts to secure authorization to operate the nation's first religious charter school and is defending the school against lawsuits that seek to close its doors before they can even open.
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Spirit of Aloha Temple v. County of Maui (9th Cir.)
Our Clinic filed an amicus brief in support of a Hindu organization, urging the court to protect its right to use its property for religious use under federal law.
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Cedar Park Assembly of God of Kirkland v. Kreidler (9th Cir.)
Our Clinic filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in support of a Pentecostal church’s efforts to stop the State of Washington from forcing it to provide insurance coverage for employees' abortions in violation of its religious teachings.
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Perez v. City of San Antonio (5th Cir.)
Our Clinic filed an amicus brief on behalf of the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers and appellants in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit to highlight the troubling history of governmental destruction of Indigenous sacred sites and to reject a narrow interpretation of Texas’ religious freedom law by the City of San Antonio.
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Loffman v. California Dept. of Education (9th Cir.)
Our Clinic filed an amicus brief on behalf of the California Catholic Conference in support of Jewish families and schools who have been barred by the State of California from receiving funds dedicated for special needs education solely because the schools are religious.
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St. Timothy's Episcopal Church v. City of Brookings (D. Or.)
Our Clinic filed an amicus brief in the District of Oregon in support of St. Timothy’s Episcopal Church, urging the court to protect the church’s freedom to feed the hungry.
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Thai Meditation Ass’n v. City of Mobile (11th Cir.)
Our Clinic filed an amicus brief in support of the Thai Meditation Association of Alabama.
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Loving v. Morton (2nd Cir.)
Our Clinic filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit case Loving v. Morton, representing Sikh, Jewish, and Muslim groups.
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Amicus brief filed in the Constitutional Court of Colombia
Our Clinic filed an amicus brief in the Constitutional Court of Colombia to defend university students’ rights to establish and participate in faith-based organizations.
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Faith Bible Chapel v. Gregory Tucker (U.S.)
Our Clinic filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Supreme Court, requesting that certiorari be granted in Faith Bible Chapel International v. Gregory Tucker.
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Groff v. DeJoy (U.S.)
Our Clinic filed an amicus brief urging the Supreme Court to grant certiorari in Groff v. DeJoy.
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Amicus brief filed in Argentina to address the Uyghur genocide
Our Clinic filed an amicus brief in support of a criminal complaint that the World Uyghur Congress and the Uyghur Human Rights Project filed against China for genocide.
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Landor v. Louisiana Department of Corrections and Public Safety (5th Cir.)
Our Clinic filed amicus briefs on behalf of the Bruderhof and Muslim, Jewish, and Sikh groups in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in support of a devout Rastafarian man who was forced by prison officials to cut his hair in contravention of his religious beliefs.
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Emad v. Dodge County (7th Cir.)
Our Clinic filed an amicus brief defending a Muslim man who was denied permission to engage in congregate religious worship and prayer outside of his jail cell.
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Walker v. Baldwin (7th Cir.)
Our Clinic filed an amicus brief in the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals case Walker v. Baldwin, representing Bruderhof, Sikh, and Muslim groups in defense of a devout Rastafarian.
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Peltier v. Charter Day School (4th Cir.)
Our Clinic filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Supreme Court, requesting that certiorari be granted in Peltier v. Charter Day School.
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McNeary and Deaton v. Council for Better Education, et al (Ky.)
Our Clinic filed an amicus behalf of EdChoice Kentucky, which represents a broad coalition supporting parental choice.
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Smith v. Ward (U.S.)
Our Clinic filed an amicus brief to assert that all people — including those who are incarcerated — have a fundamental right to live according to their religious beliefs.
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Columbus City School District et al. v. State of Ohio (Franklin Cnty. Ct. Com. Pl.)
Public school districts in Ohio attempted to challenge the constitutionality of the longstanding EdChoice Scholarship Program, which allows religious schools to participate.
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Morris v. Centura Health (Colo. App.)
Our Clinic filed an amicus brief at the Colorado Court of Appeals on behalf of the Catholic Medical Association and Coptic Medical Association of North America.
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Kennedy v. Bremerton Sch. Dist. (U.S.)
Our Clinic filed an amicus brief at the Supreme Court in support of private religious exercise and expression in public schools.
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Payne-Elliott v. Archdiocese of Indianapolis (Ind.)
Our Clinic filed an amicus brief on behalf of the Maronite Eparchy of Our Lady of Los Angeles of Lebanon and the Orthodox Church in America.
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Shavelson v. California Department of Health Care Services (N.D. Cal.)
Our Clinic filed an amicus brief opposing an effort to expand California’s physician-assisted suicide law to include euthanasia.
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Shurtleff v. Boston (U.S.)
This case asks the U.S. Supreme Court to hold that government officials may not exclude religious expression from the public square.
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Ramirez v. Collier (U.S.)
The Houston Chronicle published an editorial written by John Meiser, director of the Notre Dame Religious Liberty Clinic, and Thomas Hellenbrand, a former ND Law student.
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Carson v. Makin (U.S.)
Our Clinic filed amicus briefs in Carson v. Makin, which challenges Maine’s exclusion of religious schools from Maine's educational tuition assistance program.
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Gordon College v. DeWeese-Boyd (U.S.)
Our Clinic filed the amicus brief on behalf of two Catholic institutions of higher education that directly integrate their faith into all their educational programs.
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Agudath Isr. of Am. v. Cuomo (U.S.)
Our Clinic filed briefs representing Muslim organizations and scholars in defense of Jewish groups who have been shut down by COVID-19 closures in New York City.