Banning Feeding #Feral #Animals Did Not Violate Plaintiff's #FreeExercise Rights

Federal district court dismissed a suit involving activities at a #publicpark in #Hayward, #California. Plaintiff regularly fed cats in the park in violation of #ordinance

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Roake v Brumley: #5thCir #enbanc vacates preliminary injunction against #LAlaw requiring #TenCommandments be posted in classrooms, finds issue not ripe for judicial review under #ArticleIII #concur #dissent #FreeExercise #appellatesky #lawsky baffc.net/4b1SwXX

Court Rejects #FreeExercise Defense Raised by #Protesters Charged With #Trespass

#Arizona
An Arizona state appeals court, rejecting a #freeexercise defense, refused to dismiss complaints charging four protesters with #criminaltrespass.

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2nd Circuit Upholds #Prison 's Restriction of #Inmate 's Access to #Smudging #Ritual

In Baltas v Jones, (2d Cir., Dec. 15, 2025), the U.S. 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the dismissal of a #prisoner 's #freeexercise claim.

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The Market Limits of Free Exercise with Bailey Sanders - Taboo Trades My guest today is Bailey Sanders, a Visiting Assistant Professor of Law at Duke University. Her work examines how market competition can advance gender equality and the critical role of women’s…

“The antitrust laws don’t prohibit faith. They prohibit agreements that restrict choice.”
Bailey Sanders on how religious riders in hospital mergers reduce access to reproductive care.
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#Antitrust #FreeExercise #LawTwitter

#OnThisDay in 1635, Roger Williams is banished from Massachusetts Bay Colony due to his religious beliefs.

Explore how the #FreeExercise clause, protecting freedom of religion, became a part of the #USConstitution:

Erosion of the line between #Church&State
Is a big target of the Right of late.
But separation was the Founders intention
Partly to shield faith from Gov. intervention.
Public funds come with regulation
And #FreeExercise strangulation.
Separation is a wise choice
So churches keep a free voice.

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 […]

a man wearing a headband with a c on it talks to another man ALT: a man wearing a headband with a c on it talks to another man

Wax on, wax off! You might be learning karate. :)

#FreeExercise

SCOTUS grants cert in St. Isidore v. Drummond, examining #FreeExercise limits in #CharterSchools. Key Q: Can OK exclude religious schools from charter program solely based on religious status? Significant 1st Amendment pedagogical choice case. @SCOTUSblog

#SCOTUS ’s decisions expanding the legal personhood of #corporations has taken us through their #freeexercise rights when denying #healthcare and their right to spend money as a #speech act. I wish their coming line in the sand weren’t just arbitrary partisanship. #pornhub #supremecourt

Wow!: New documentary tells America’s story of religious freedom - Sight Magazine A new documentary tells the story of religious freedom through the experience of six religious groupsand the persecutions they endured.

Wow!: New documentary tells America’s story of religious freedom. @sightmagazine.bsky.social #Wow #FreeExercise #religiousfreedom #RichardBrookhiser #religiouspersecution #Quakers #Baptists #Blackchurches #Catholics #Mormons #Jews

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Oklahoma Republicans are flipping out over a Pagan invocation in Tulsa Amy Hardy-McAdams' prayer invoked Medusa, the “Gorgon Goddess,” and the Awen

#Oklahoma pagan exercises her #FreeExercise rights during a governmental meeting in #Tulsa & OK Governor Stitt & school head throw a #TemperTantrump.

#OKC #OklahomaCity #Norman #Edmond #Stillwater #Lawton #Durant #Shawnee #Claremore #Government #meetings

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