Jacoby v. Prince
The world waits to hear the Supreme Court’s rulings on classroom recitations of “under God” and Washington state’s constitutional ban on scholarships for religious studies. But some lower-court decisions it decided to let stand are also important.
Allows a Bible club to meet at a public high school during class time.
Lassonde v. Pleasanton
Unified School District Allows a school to forbid a salutatorian’s “proselytizing” graduation speech.
McKnight v. South Carolina
Upholds a homicide conviction for a drug user’s stillbirth.
Kliebenstein v. Iowa Conference of The United Methodist Church
Allows a church member to sue for defamation over the phrase “spirit of Satan.”
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The Supreme Court Rules That Abortion Protesters Are Not Racketeers (Feb. 27, 2003)
Supreme Court Considers Antiabortion Activism (Dec. 06, 2002)
Supreme Court Okays School Vouchers (June 27, 2002)
After Supreme Court Ruling, Ashcroft Gets Tougher on Child Pornography (April 17, 2002)
In Alabama Supreme Court Decision, Chief Justice Roy Moore Rants Against Homosexuality (Feb. 22, 2002)
Supreme Court Declines to Hear Three Cases on Religion in Schools | Religious use and student-led prayer seem to be okay, but Bible reading in class isn’t. What does the Supreme Court really think about public religion? (June 19, 2001)
Supreme Court Won’t Hear Two Religious Freedom Cases (May 1, 2001)
The Court’s In Session | Are Christians ready to make their case? (April 25, 2000)
Supreme Court Strikes Down Public Student-Led Prayer (June 20, 2000)
Supreme Court to Rule on Abortion Protests | What the world’s media sources are saying about Christians and Christianity (January 17, 2000)
Supreme Court Examines Partial-Birth Abortion Ban (January 24, 2000)
Supreme Court Ruling Due on Church Expansion Dispute | Christian leaders around the nation are expectantly awaiting a U.S. Supreme Court decision this summer that could alter the future of not only church land use but religious freedom (April 28, 1997)
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