A high-school History teacher in California is not personally liable for comments that may have been derogatory toward religion, the 9th Circuit ruled today. The law simply isn't specific enough about the rules defining the relationship between academic freedom...
Presidential candidate and Governor Rick Perry seems to think so. During a New Hampshire campaign stop yesterday, Perry responded to a child and mom asking his views on evolution: It’s a theory that’s out there. It’s got some gaps in it. In...
The 9th Circuit ruled against advocates of a Bible-based curriculum for a charter school in Idaho in a decision filed earlier this week. Charter school or no, Nampa Classical is a government entity, the Court said, and its curriculum amounts to government speech. The...
New York's City Council has passed a sweeping employment discrimination measure requiring employers to accommodate workers' religious observance requirements except in cases where doing so would mean "significant expense or difficulty" to the...
South Bend's plan to transfer publicly owned property to a Catholic high school to become part of a new athletic complex is being challenged in federal court. Americans United and the ACLU filed suit yesterday claiming the move would improperly use public funds...
