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On Tuesday, the Supreme Court of the United States set in motion what may end up being a momentous couple of non-decisions on religious freedom in the time of the Chinese coronavirus, as Streiff wrote:
Yesterday, the Supreme Court kicked two decisions by Obama-appointed judges back for “reconsideration” in light of the Supreme Court’s decision in
Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn v. New York. At issue were decisions originating in New Jersey (that would be the state where the governor dines in close quarters in a restaurant while he sends out the
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The Supreme Court handed down a deeply strange order Thursday evening, denying relief to a religious private school in Kentucky that wants to reopen despite a Covid-19 related order closing all primary and secondary schools in the state.
As a matter of law, the outcome in
Danville Christian Academy v. Beshear is correct or, at least, it would have been correct before the Court handed down a decision on the eve of Thanksgiving that significantly expanded the rights of religious objectors to state laws. But oddly, the Court’s
Danville Christian order barely discusses the merits of the case, and it doesn’t engage at all with the question of whether
The Harvest Rock Church included this photo of California Governor Gavin Newsom dining at the exclusive restaurant French Laundry in a brief with the Supreme Court. (Image via Courthouse News)
(CN) Weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court vacated a federal judge’s ruling on Harvest Rock Church’s challenge to California’s indoor gathering restrictions, an attorney for the Christian church said in district court Friday the state unfairly targeted religious gatherings with “harsh treatment.”
The Christian organization, which has over 160 member churches across the Golden State, sued to overturn California’s coronavirus-related restrictions limiting in-person worship services.
The rules violate the church’s right to practice its religion and unfairly expose its religious community to potential criminal penalties, the church said in its lawsuit.
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On December 10, 2020, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California held its Class Action Symposium. The symposium is as timely as ever. Food, beverage, and consumer product class actions are rocketing, with projected filings up 24 percent over 2019. The Northern District of California sees a substantial subset of these filings, earning it the nickname “the Food Court.”
The symposium featured distinguished speakers such as the Honorable Charles Breyer, Erwin Chemerinsky, and several of the nation’s leading class action litigators. In a matter of hours, the symposium packed in a variety of top-of-mind topics for practitioners: (1) guidance for class action settlements, (2) key developments in Ninth Circuit case law, and (3) predictions about class action cases at the Supreme Court.
Ninth Circuit strikes down Nevada s COVID-19 worship restrictions
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Ninth Circuit strikes down Nevada s COVID-19 worship restrictions
Ninth Circuit strikes down Nevada s COVID-19 worship restrictions | Friday, December 18, 2020
Calvary Chapel Dayton Valley in Dayton, Nevada. | Alliance Defending Freedom
A Nevada church is claiming victory after a federal court struck down worship restrictions in the state that prevented it from holding in-person church services with more than 50 people in attendance.
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals sided with Calvary Chapel Dayton Valley, based in Lyon County, Nevada, in its longstanding dispute with Democratic Gov. Steve Sisolak over worship restrictions imposed on the state in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The ruling, which will allow churches to hold in-person worship services at 25% capacity, reversed a lower court ruling that upheld the restrictions.