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Native American Issues First Amendment Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA)

Epstein Becker & Green

The First Amendment, Front and Center - SCOTUS Today

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The U.S. Supreme Court did not issue any merits opinions today, but there were two dissents from denials of cert. that merit attention, both concerning the First Amendment....more

Morrison & Foerster LLP - Left Coast Appeals

This Week at The Ninth: Sacred Land and Municipal Good Faith

This week, the Ninth Circuit addresses a religion-based challenge to a federal-government land transfer and considers whether public-sector employees can obtain refunds of mandatory union fees since deemed unconstitutional. ...more

Robinson+Cole RLUIPA Defense

Pave it! RFRA Unlikely to Protect Sacred Burial Ground

A Federal Magistrate Judge for the United States District Court of Oregon recently issued findings and recommendations in Chief Wilder Slockish, et al. v. U.S. Federal Highway Administration, et al., concluding that federal...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Religious Institutions: October 2014

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Timely Topics - Church splits and property disputes are not new, but they have certainly grown in number in recent years. In the seminal case on church property disputes, Watson v. Jones, 80 U.S. (13 Wall.) 679, 20 L....more

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