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7th Circuit: Plaintiff Must Allege More Than Conclusory Statements of #Religious #Belief to Get #ReligiousExemption

In Troogstad v. City of #Chicago, (7th Cir., Dec. 9, 2025), the U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the dismissal of #freeexercise claims by a #ChicagoFireDepartment employee who was denied a religious #exemption from the city's #Covid19 #vaccinemandate.

https://religionclause.blogspot.com/2025/12/7th-circuit-plaintiff-must-allege-more.html

#Camping Ordinance Does Not Violate #FreeExercise Rights of #Homeless Resident

In Hebbe v. City of Folsom, (ED CA, Dec. 3, 2025), plaintiff who is an #unhoused resident of #FolsomCalifornia, challenges on numerous grounds a Folsom Ordinance that prohibits #publiccamping between 9:00 p.m. and 9:00 a.m. One of his claims-- rejected by the decision of a California federal magistrate judge-- is that the public camping ban violates his #1stAmendment #freeexercise rights.

https://religionclause.blogspot.com/2025/12/camping-ordinance-does-not-violate-free.html

7th Circuit: #Chicago's Reporting Requirement for #Employees During #CovidPandemic Were #Constitutional

In Kondilis v. City of Chicago, (7th Cir., Dec. 2, 2025), the U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals rejected claims by City of Chicago employees who had been granted #religiousexemptions from the #Covidvaccinemandate that, nevertheless, the reporting requirements imposed on them violated their #freeexercise and #equalprotection rights.

https://religionclause.blogspot.com/2025/12/7th-circuit-chicagos-reporting.html

In Clayman v. Bessant, (SD FL, Nov. 24, 2025), a #Florida federal district court rejected plaintiff's #RFRA, #FreeExercise, #EstablishmentClause, Takings Clause and other challenges to the phrase #InGodWeTrust on #US. #coins and #currency.

#Jewish #religious #Hasmonean #Maccabean #religioustraditions #God #secular #SOCAS #separationofchurchandstate

https://religionclause.blogspot.com/2025/11/in-god-we-trust-on-currency-does-not.html

#11thCircuit: #Government Can Insist on #Secular Presenters in Intervention Program for #DomesticAbusers

In #NussbaumervSecretary, #Florida Department of #Children and #Families, (11th Cir., Sept. 4, 2025), the U.S. 11th Circuit Court of Appeals rejected #freespeech and #freeexercise challenges to Florida's requirements for becoming certified as a provider in the state's batterers' intervention program.

https://religionclause.blogspot.com/2025/09/11th-circuit-government-can-insist-on.html

6th Circuit: #Transgender #Bathroom Rule Did Not Violate Objecting #Parents' or #Students' #FreeExercise Rights

https://religionclause.blogspot.com/2025/09/6th-circuit-transgender-bathroom-rule.html

The #FreeExercise clause prohibits the
govt from interfering wi/the right of individuals to practice #religion, while the establishment clause prevents the govt from establishing an official religion or favoring faith over nonbelief.

“This #Oklahoma case is the potential culmination of the Roberts court effort to cast the free-exercise clause in the starring role in our constitutional order, & offer the establishment clause only a cameo,”Driver said.

#law #SCOTUS #Constitution #ActivistCourt

#Homophobic #Maryland #Parents ask #SupremeCourt to hear case on #schools making #kids read #LGBTQ #affirming #books.

They claim their #freeexercise of #religion is violated without an option to opt out of learning #LGBTQ #relationships are equally #valid

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Maryland #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Religion #Hategroups #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate #EmptyThePews

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/sep/13/parents-ask-supreme-court-to-hear-case-of-schools-/

#MSNBC analyst Angela-something characterized the Oklahoma law requiring teaching of the Bible in classrooms as an instance of the tension between the Establishment and Free Exercise clauses of the First Amendment.

Er. . . what? That’s 180° wrong, and you don’t even have to be a lawyer to see it. If the law engages with Free Exercise at all (debatable), surely it’s violative — as it quite obviously is with respect to the Establishment Clause.

In other words: the two clauses are working together against this law. That’s the opposite of “tension”.

MSNBC, either you quoted Angela way out of context, or you need a new analyst (preferably one who took at least one con law class).

#constitution #Oklahoma #schools #1stAMENDMENT #FreeExercise #EstablishmentClause #religion #ChurchState #teachers #law #journalism

NEW ESSAY!
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4829289#

It discusses establishment clause and free exercise clause challenges to early abortion bans

#FediLaw #FediProf #law #abortion #religion #freeExercise #Establishment

Smith's Last Stand? #FreeExercise and #FosterCare #Exceptionalism
University of Pennsylvania Journal of #ConstitutionalLaw, Vol. 24, No. 856, 2022
William & Mary #LawSchool Research Paper No. 09-483
52 Pages Posted: 7 Mar 2024
James G. Dwyer

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4748800

2nd Circuit Remands #FreeExercise Claim of #Inmate Who Could Not Attend #Religious Services

https://flip.it/atVfwW

Baker Cannot Refuse to Provide Non-expressive Cake to Transgender Customer
http://religionclause.blogspot.com/2023/01/baker-cannot-refuse-to-provide-non.html

No free speech violation bc not expressive: "We conclude that creating a pink cake with blue frosting is not inherently expressive and any message or symbolism it provides to an observer would not be attributed to the baker."

No free exercise violation bc anti-disc law is neutral & generally applicable

#LGBTQ #equality #religion #speech #FreeSpeech #FreeExercise
#law #lawfedi #lawprof