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Cases & Analysis
Case Page: Miller v. McDonald
New York recently eliminated its religious exemption to childhood vaccination requirements, preventing unvaccinated children from attending school. This directly impacts Amish community schools, which often seek religious exemptions for childhood vaccines. This...
How The Johnson Amendment Impacts Your Church or Non-Profit
Note: This page provides a general overview of the restrictions under the Federal Tax Code (26 U.S.C. 501(c)(3)) on supporting campaign or political speech by non-profits. We attempt to update this page with current developments on this topic, but the information...
Case Page: Olympus Spa v. Armstrong, Washington State Human Rights Commission
September 2026 Washington seeks to enforce “nondiscrimination” law to compel a traditional Korean spa to permit male bodies into female nude spa facilities. Olympus Spa is a Christian Korean spa in the State of Washington that has provided spa treatments to female...
Case Page: Holy Trinity Ukrainian Catholic Church – First Amendment & RLUIPA – Discrimination against Churches
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Catholic Church is a small Ukrainian Catholic parish in Collier Township, Pennsylvania, whose members belong to an ancient Eastern Christian tradition rooted in Ukraine and worship according to millennia-old liturgical customs. Ukrainian...
Case Page: Hecox (Idaho) & B.P.J. (West Virginia) — State Statutes Protecting Girls’ Sports
October 2025 While Title IX has, for years, clearly permitted separate categories for males and females in athletics, activists began a coordinated effort to force entities to accept males on female teams. In response, in March 2020, Idaho Governor Brad Little signed...
Analysis: Parental Rights & Secret Identity Transition in Schools
The Fundamental Right of Parents The United States Constitution has long recognized that parents—not the state—have the primary authority to direct the upbringing, education, and care of their children. This principle has been reaffirmed by both the Supreme Court and...
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
— The First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States
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