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The Catholic group filed the lawsuit less than a month after the Genoa Township board denied a special use permit.

Baltimore County to Pay $1.1M to Settle Church’s Religious Bias Claims May 3, 2021 Baltimore County has agreed to pay $1.1 million to resolve a religious discrimination lawsuit over a county board’s denial of a church’s expansion plan. The Baltimore Sun reports that the county and Hunt Valley Baptist Church reached the March 31 settlement after a federal judge in Baltimore upheld a ruling that the county violated a federal law that protects religious institutions from discrimination in zoning. The church sued in 2017 after a county appeals board denie...

Religious groups file brief in support of Amish appeal to Supreme Court The Jewish Coalition for Religious Liberty and the National Committee for Amish Religious Freedom filed a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in support of the Amish gray water case. 12:47 pm, Mar. 11, 2021 × Two national religious liberty groups filed a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in support of members of the Fillmore County Swartzentruber Amish community's petition to overturn a Minnesota court's decision that would require them to install septic systems against their religious practices. The...

Steven Wright’s ‘The Coyotes of Carthage’ depicts realities of race, money and politics “It’s always such a great honor to teach such smart students, especially at the University of Wisconsin,” Steven Wright says. “They’re smart and they’re hardworking and they really love learning.” In August, USA Today published Two friends texted the list to Steven Wright, a clinical associate professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School and lecturer in the UW–Madison creative writing program whose debut novel, “The Coyotes of Carthage,”...

Andrew Cuomo may have swapped civil court orders for criminal sentences as the possible outcome of his nursing homes debacle.