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The judge's temporary ruling said that protests that prevent Jewish students from accessing parts of the campus violated religious freedom rights. A federal judge on Tuesday temporarily barred the University [...]

In lawsuits challenging state abortion bans, lawyers for abortion rights plaintiffs are employing religious liberty arguments the Christian right has used for decades. For years, conservative Christians have used the [...]

The Supreme Court has sided with a Christian graphic designer who refuses to create wedding websites for gay or lesbian couples. The result comes as little surprise. Writing for a [...]

The justices settled a question left open in 2018: whether businesses open to the public and engaged in expression may refuse to serve customers based on religious convictions. The Supreme [...]

Jurors will next hear arguments about whether the defendant, Robert Bowers, should be sentenced to death. The gunman who killed 11 worshipers in a Pittsburgh synagogue in October 2018 was [...]

The justices have been receptive to claims of religious freedom and may take a broad view of a federal law that requires employers to ''reasonably accommodate'' workers' religious practices. LANCASTER, [...]

A Colorado graphic designer says she has a First Amendment right to refuse to create websites for same-sex weddings despite a state anti-discrimination law. LITTLETON, Colo. -- Ten years ago, [...]

The students say they will delay seeking recognition if all other clubs at the modern Orthodox Jewish university in Manhattan can resume activities. An L.G.B.T.Q. student group offered to delay [...]

Sonia Sotomayor's ruling will be in place pending a decision by the Supreme Court to take up the case. Justice Sonia Sotomayor said on Friday that Yeshiva University in Manhattan [...]

The Modern Orthodox Jewish school plans to appeal the decision, joining a nationwide debate over the limits of religious freedom. Students at Yeshiva University in New York have tried for [...]

Members of the court's conservative majority indicated that the coach, Joseph A. Kennedy, had a constitutional right to kneel and pray at the 50-yard line after games. WASHINGTON -- The [...]

In an 8-to-1 ruling, the court said Texas may not execute John Henry Ramirez, a death row inmate, unless his pastor can pray with and lay hands on him in [...]

The case may settle a question left open in 2018: how to reconcile claims of religious liberty with laws barring discrimination based on sexual orientation. WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court [...]

With each new valleyconfronting poor Americans during the coronavirus pandemic, the soup kitchen lines outside St. Timothy's Episcopal Church in Brookings, Ore., have remained steady, the comfort of a hot [...]

St. Timothy's Episcopal Church in Brookings, Ore., is challenging a new municipal ordinance that limits church soup kitchen programs to two days a week. With each new valley confronting poor [...]

A federal appeals court ruled that a school board in Washington State could require the coach to stop praying at the 50-yard line after high school football games. WASHINGTON -- [...]

Doctors and nurses challenged a state coronavirus vaccine requirement that had medical but not religious exemptions, saying it violated their right to free exercise of their faiths. WASHINGTON -- The [...]

The Supreme Court will decide whether Boston, which allows many kinds of groups to raise flags outside its City Hall, can reject one bearing the Latin cross. WASHINGTON -- There [...]

A Texas death row inmate, John H. Ramirez, asked the justices to let spiritual advisers pray with and lay hands on prisoners as they await execution. WASHINGTON -- A Texas [...]

The justices considered whether the state secrets doctrine required dismissal on national security grounds of a case claiming religious discrimination. WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court on Monday wrestled with the [...]

The case, from Maine, will address questions left open in a decision last year requiring Montana to let religious schools take part in a scholarship program. WASHINGTON -- The Supreme [...]

A lawsuit that she filed in New Jersey is testing the First Amendment limits of religious freedom. When a Catholic school art teacher was asked to take on extra responsibilities, [...]

The unanimous ruling was further evidence that claims of religious liberty almost always prevail in the current court. WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court ruled unanimously on Thursday that a Catholic [...]

The Supreme Court is expected to rule this month on a case that could upend, in the name of religious freedom, 50 years of progress in the effort to provide [...]

The court shifted direction in cases on Covid-related limits on religious services after Justice Amy Coney Barrett replaced Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court late Friday night [...]

In a dissent, two conservative justices invite a case to overturn a precedent on religion in the workplace that they dislike. The Supreme Court's refusal this week to hear a [...]

The court also dismissed a challenge to Delaware's court system, which takes account of judges' partisan ties to create ideological balance. WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled in [...]

Justice Amy Coney Barrett played a decisive role in the decision, which took the opposite approach of earlier court rulings related to coronavirus restrictions in California and Nevada. WASHINGTON -- [...]

The possible addition of Judge Amy Coney Barrett could create ''the Trump court,'' pushing it rightward. Cases on the Affordable Care Act and religious objections to gay rights could offer [...]

A California church argued that restrictions on public gatherings treated houses of worship worse than many businesses. WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court on Friday turned away a request from a [...]

The justices will consider whether a city may exclude a Catholic adoption agency from its foster care system because it refuses to work with gay couples. WASHINGTON -- The Supreme [...]

Three Muslim men say F.B.I. agents tried to use the list to coerce them into becoming informants, in violation of a federal law protecting religious freedom. When F.B.I. agents asked [...]

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an appeal from the owners of an Oregon bakery who were fined for refusing to create a wedding cake for [...]

[What you need to know to start the day: Get New York Today in your inbox .] MAHWAH, N.J. -- A knee-high pile of rocks sits in a far corner [...]

A Russian court on Friday found a Danish Jehovah's Witness guilty of organizing a banned extremist group and sentenced him to six years in prison, Russian state media reported. The [...]

DUBLIN -- Britain's Supreme Court supported on Wednesday the right of a Belfast bakery to refuse to bake a cake with a message supporting same-sex marriage, finding that its Christian [...]

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court on Monday said it would not consider sequels to its decisions this month on a baker who refused to serve a gay couple and on [...]

LAKEWOOD, Colo. -- The pilgrims arrived early to the cake shop on Tuesday, toting cameras and American flags and hoping for a glimpse of the man who had elevated a [...]

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court on Monday ruled in favor of a Colorado baker who had refused to create a wedding cake for a gay couple. The court's decision was [...]

The Supreme Court has ruled on the Masterpiece Cake case -- and on the surface, it would appear to be a loss for L.G.B.T.Q. Americans. The justices ruled 7 to [...]

One evening in January 2017, after she had been detained for hours in a police holding cell in Manhattan and repeatedly told to remove a head scarf that is part [...]

Three Muslim women have each reached a $60,000 settlement with New York City after they were forced to remove their hijabs to be photographed while in police custody, according to [...]

In 2015, David Ermold wanted a marriage license, but was denied by his county clerk, Kim Davis. Now he wants her job. Two years after Ms. Davis brought national attention [...]

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court entered the latest battleground in the culture wars on Tuesday, hearing arguments in a hard-fought clash between gay rights and claims of religious freedom that [...]

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- The Supreme Court is to hear arguments Tuesday in the case of a Colorado baker, Jack Phillips, who refused to make a wedding cake for two gay [...]

The encounter between David Mullins, Charlie Craig and Jack Phillips in a suburban Denver bakery lasted less than a minute. But it has led to years of litigation, culminating in [...]

LAKEWOOD, Colo. -- Jack Phillips bakes beautiful cakes, and it is not a stretch to call him an artist. Five years ago, in a decision that has led to a [...]

The European Court of Justice handed right-wing nationalists a victory on Tuesday that allows employers to ban Muslim women and others who wear signs of their faith. With rising anti-Muslim [...]

In 2008, school officials in Basel, Switzerland, ordered a Muslim couple to enroll their daughters in a mandatory swimming class, despite the parents' objections to having their girls learn alongside [...]