A former patient who is an Orthodox Jew is pursuing a lawsuit against a suburban Chicago hospital and a rabbi working there because his leg was cremated after being amputated…
A group called the Satanic Temple is claiming the Supreme Court’s Hobby Lobby decision gives its followers an exemption from informed-consent abortion laws.
A federal appeals court has found no establishment clause violation in the government’s museum display of a cross-shaped beam found in the World Trade Center rubble after the Sept. 11,…
A U.S. Supreme Court ruling in May upholding “chaplain of the month” prayers has emboldened atheists who are offering to deliver invocations before government meetings.
A federal appeals court has struck down an Indiana law that allows clergy of religious groups to solemnize marriages, but not officials from groups of secular humanists.
The U.S. Supreme Court issued an injunction on Thursday allowing a Christian college in Illinois to bypass regulations requiring it to fill out a form noting its religious objections to…
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled 5-4 that closely held corporations can’t be required to provide insurance coverage for contraceptives over their owners’ religious objections.
A federal judge in Brooklyn has upheld a New York City policy that bans unvaccinated students from public school when a classmate has a vaccine-preventable disease.
The Maldives has adopted a new criminal code based on the work of University of Pennsylvania law professor Paul Robinson and a group of law and Ph.D. students.
Those involved in bitter disputes over the granting of a divorce recognized by Jewish religious law might want to consider steering clear of one town in New Jersey.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has refused a trademark for the phrase “Stop the Islamization of America” because it is disparaging to Muslims.
For months, a lecturer at a Pakistani university jailed in a blasphemy case was unable to find a lawyer to represent him: They feared violent reprisals and even death at…