Judicial Leader for Prayer

A federal judge has ruled that a state school in Detroit discriminated against a student organization when it suspended the group for mandating that leaders must profess Christianity.

In an opinion written by Judge Amul Thapar, the Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals sided with a professor who refused to call a transgender student by a preferred pronoun.

The Supreme Court has ruled that car makers may be sued at the state level because they do business nationwide. This may facilitate increased lawsuits in state courts against other national companies.

The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled in favor of the school that prohibited a high school football coach from praying on the field after games.

District Judge Amit Mehta ruled that Immigration and Customs Enforcement must retain records about sexual assault and detainee deaths.

In Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s first written opinion, the U.S. Supreme Court backed privacy of draft records concerning harm to endangered species.

Justice Clarence Thomas issued a forceful dissent to the Supreme Court’s refusal to hear a challenge of a Pennsylvania state court decision relating to the 2020 presidential election.

Federal Judge Mary Geiger Lewis suspended South Carolina’s new law banning most abortions the day after it went into effect.

Southern Texas District Judge Drew Tipton extended the temporary injunction against a federal deportation freeze. The judge will use this time to consider the lawsuit filed by the Texas attorney general.

The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that an Indiana county courthouse display that included a nativity scene does not violate the Constitution.