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Case Page: Pennsylvania Apartment Complex Discriminates Against Religious Tenants in the Name of Diversity and Inclusion.

Religious residents at an apartment complex in Pennsylvania for senior citizens and people with disabilities received an unwelcome surprise in their mailboxes in March of 2025. The apartment complex sent a letter to all its residents, explicitly banning them from having “Bible studies or meetings” in common areas. The rule also prohibited any religious materials, religious signs, or religious…

Case Page: Okhlahoma Statewide Charter School Board v. Drummond

In Oklahoma Statewide Charter School Board v. Drummond, the Supreme Court of the United States addressed whether a state could exclude religious schools from its charter school program solely because of the school’s religious identity. St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School applied for and was approved as a charter school by the Oklahoma Statewide Charter School Board, which determined…

Case Page: U.S. v. Skrmetti – Protecting Children From Harmful Medical Procedures

In 2023, lawmakers in both Tennessee and Kentucky passed into state law protections for children from harmful medical experiments involving puberty blocking drugs and irreversible sexual cosmetic surgeries. “The last decade has seen a marked international shift away from medicalized “transition”—i.e. the use of puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgical procedures—for minors with…

Case Page: Greenberg v. Lehocky

This case challenges a rule adopted by the Pennsylvania Disciplinary Board on the grounds that the rule, Pennsylvania Rule of Professional Conduct 8.4(g), controls how attorneys who practice in Pennsylvania may speak on issues including sexual orientation and gender identity or expression. This new rule, which infringes on attorneys’ First Amendment rights to free speech, applies special nondiscriminatory…

Case Page: U.S. Food and Drug Administration v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine

Mifepristone and misoprostol are the two drugs that, when used together, make up a chemical abortion, or the abortion pill. Mifepristone first received FDA approval in 2000 and because of the substantial dangers, it came with restrictions on who could dispense it, where it could be used, and to what point in a pregnancy it could be used. During the COVID pandemic, the FDA temporarily and then permanently…

Case Page: Christian Healthcare Centers v. Nessel, et al.

Christian Healthcare Centers is a religious, nonprofit healthcare and wellness ministry in Michigan that serves all people. Christian Healthcare was founded to provide a distinctly Christian alternative to traditional primary care by striving to meet its patients’ medical, emotional and spiritual needs. Its mission is defined by religious beliefs that are deeply rooted and intertwined with all aspects…