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A federal appeals court panel has ruled that a Catholic school in Indiana can lawfully refuse to renew the contract of a guidance counselor because she was in a same-sex marriage, which violated Catholic teaching.
In the Supreme Court’s recent decision in Kennedy v. Bremerton School District, ___ U.S. ___, 2022 WL 2295034 (2022)(Bremerton), the Court considered a government employee’s claim of...
U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Kennedy v. Bremerton School District further clarifies the legal landscape of the First Amendment’s application to public schools. The First Amendment requires all public entities to balance its obligations under the Establishment Clause.
A school district infringed on an assistant football coach’s rights under the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment when it suspended him for continuing to publicly pray after football games in violation of its policy, the U.S. Supreme Court has held. Kennedy v. Bremerton Sch. Dist., No. 21-418, 2022 U.S. LEXIS 3218 (June 27, 2022). Background Joseph Kennedy was a high
Supreme Court clarifies the parameters of Free Exercise and Establishment Clauses of the First Amendment, as it applies to public school employees, Kennedy's decision does not elevate a public employee’s private right of speech over the interests of public employers