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The Government Has Now Answered for the Agent Inside the Church. Its Answer Is a Floor Plan.

The government says sending an undercover agent into a protected church broke no order, because he was in the gymnasium and not the sanctuary. A judge has told it to explain.

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Everyone Will Call This the Homeschool Bible Case. Read What the Ninth Circuit Actually Held: Your Kitchen Table Is a Public School.

Three California families asked the Supreme Court last week to look at Woolard v. Thurmond. The Ninth Circuit did not hold that religious curriculum is dangerous. It held that a kitchen table is sufficiently public.

Stone v. Graham Has Been the Law Since 1980. On Monday, Two Dozen Texas Families Asked the Supreme Court Whether Anyone Still Means It.

Stone v. Graham Has Been the Law Since 1980. On Monday, Two Dozen Texas Families Asked the Supreme Court Whether Anyone Still Means It.

A 1980 precedent striking down a nearly identical Kentucky law is still on the books. The Fifth Circuit upheld the Texas posters anyway.

Everyone Will Call This the ICE at Churches Ruling. The Government Lost It in an Argument It Never Made.

Everyone Will Call This the ICE at Churches Ruling. The Government Lost It in an Argument It Never Made.

The Fourth Circuit affirmed on Tuesday. DHS never argued a compelling interest in the district court, so it forfeited strict scrutiny on appeal.

The Lawyer Asking the Supreme Court to Overrule Locke v. Davey Is the Student Who Lost It

The Lawyer Asking the Supreme Court to Overrule Locke v. Davey Is the Student Who Lost It

Virginia pays for a degree in music. It will not pay for a degree in music and worship. On Tuesday the student who lost that argument in 2004 filed the brief asking the Supreme Court to reconsider.

Everyone Will Read This as a Harvard Story. The Holding Is About the Word "Ongoing," and It Will Be Your Standard Too.

Everyone Will Read This as a Harvard Story. The Holding Is About the Word "Ongoing," and It Will Be Your Standard Too.

A federal judge threw out the government's antisemitism case against Harvard on Thursday. He did not rule that nothing happened. He ruled on one word, and that word will be the standard your church and your school are measured by too.

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Everyone Will Call This the Catholic Preschool Case. Read the Second Question.

The Court set St. Mary Catholic Parish v. Roy for November 3, election day. The question everyone will report is not the one that decides the most.