Religion

Nov 4, 2024

Federal election observers to monitor Mecklenburg voting

CHARLOTTE — Observers from the U.S. Department of Justice will monitor compliance with federal voting rights laws Tuesday in Mecklenburg County. “The department regularly deploys its staff to monitor for […]

Mar 27, 2024

3 middle schoolers face hate crime charges

HUNTINGTOWN, Md. — Three middle schoolers from southern Maryland have been charged with hate crimes after they displayed swastikas, performed Nazi salutes and made derogatory remarks about a classmate’s religion, […]

Jan 28, 2020

Justices seem favorable to religious education funding

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court’s conservative majority appears ready to reinvigorate a Montana scholarship program and make it easier to use public money to pay for religious schooling in […]

Jan 10, 2018

Civil Rights – Burden on Inmate’s Religious Rights Not Justified

The government was not entitled to summary judgment against an inmate who claimed that his religious freedom was violated, the appellate court held. Appellant Aaron Carter, a Virginia prisoner, follows […]

Sep 18, 2012

Domestic Relations – Civil Practice – Interlocutory Appeal – Parent & Child – Temporary Custody Order – First Amendment – Religion – Judges

Sood v. Sood The trial court’s custody order was temporary in that it left open the issues of psychological evaluations of the parties’ mental conditions, the defendant-father’s child support arrearage, and holiday schedules after the 2012 spring break. In fact, the father concedes in his brief that the custody order is temporary. Therefore, the order is interlocutory.

May 14, 2012

Prisons & Jails – Civil Rights – Religion – Beard Policy – Health & Security Concerns

Couch v. Jabe Virginia prison officials failed to show how allowing a Sunni Muslim inmate to wear a one-eighth-inch beard would implicate prison health or security concerns, and the 4th Circuit vacates summary judgment for defendant officials in the inmate’s suit under the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act.

Aug 27, 2010

High court grants stay in Davidson campus police case

By SYLVIA ADCOCK, Staff Writer [email protected] The N.C. Supreme Court last week agreed to stay the effects of a case involving Davidson College that raised questions about whether church-affiliated college […]

Aug 20, 2010

Panel: College’s police force violates First Amendment

It's not every day that First Amendment issues get raised in a drunk-driving case. But last week the Court of Appeals threw out a DWI case involving an arrest by a Davidson College police officer, agreeing with the defense that Davidson is a religious institution and giving police powers to the school is unconstitutional. "We hold that the delegation of police power to Davidson College ... i[...]