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Texas Appellate Court Grants New Trial in Battle Over City’s Unlawful Attempt to Skirt Due Process, Tax Laws
December 18, 2020 15:18 ET | First Liberty Institute
AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 18, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today, the Texas Third District Court of Appeals in Austin affirmed a lower court decision granting a new trial for three churches that filed a...
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Christian School Will Continue to Fight for its Religious Liberty Against Kentucky Governor’s Unlawful Shutdown of In-Person Classes at Faith-Based K-12 Schools
December 17, 2020 18:03 ET | First Liberty Institute
WASHINGTON, Dec. 17, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- First Liberty Institute will continue to challenge any Governor Andy Beshear executive order that prohibits private religious schools in Kentucky from...
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Thirty-Eight U.S. Senators Urge U.S. Supreme Court to Protect Right of Religious Schools in Kentucky to Meet In-Person
December 04, 2020 16:33 ET | First Liberty Institute
WASHINGTON, Dec. 04, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Led by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, thirty-eight U.S. Senators today filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court of the United States...
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Religious Liberty Firm Urges U.S. Supreme Court to Protect Places of Worship from NY Governor Cuomo’s Order
November 18, 2020 11:17 ET | First Liberty Institute
WASHINGTON, Nov. 18, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- First Liberty Institute filed a friend-of-the-court brief in The Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn v. Cuomo, a case in which the Brooklyn Diocese has...
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Supreme Court Hears Oral Argument in Key Religious Liberty Case Involving Religious Child Placement Agencies
November 04, 2020 12:11 ET | First Liberty Institute
WASHINGTON, Nov. 04, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Supreme Court of the United States today heard oral argument in Philadelphia v. Fulton, a case in which the Justices will decide whether religious...
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Eleventh Circuit: Jurors Might Have a Prayer
September 24, 2020 12:38 ET | First Liberty Institute
ATLANTA, Sept. 24, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit granted a request for an en banc hearing in United States of America v. Corrine Brown. ...
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Despite Reaching Agreement with FAA to Allow Chick-fil-A in Airport, City of San Antonio Now Says Franchise Not Allowed, According to First Liberty
September 14, 2020 12:58 ET | First Liberty Institute
SAN ANTONIO, Sept. 14, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The following statement may be attributed to Keisha Russell, Counsel at First Liberty Institute:  “We are grateful to the FAA for taking our...
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Plaintiff in Supreme Court’s Religious Liberty Altering Smith Decision Asks Justices to Protect Faith-Based Adoption Agencies
June 03, 2020 12:16 ET | First Liberty Institute
WASHINGTON, June 03, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- First Liberty Institute filed a friend-of-the-court brief in Fulton v. City of Philadelphia, in which the U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether the...