http://www.au.org Americans United for Separation of Church and State Lawsuits Americans United for Separation of Church and State Convio Content Management System Module en-us www.au.org-39696069 http://www.au.org/what-we-do/lawsuits/archives/does-v-elmbrook-school.html Challenge to public-school district's practice of holding high-school graduation ceremonies in a church. Mon, 01 Feb 2010 10:34:35 -0600 www.au.org-33226595 http://www.au.org/what-we-do/lawsuits/archives/summers-v-adams.html Challenge to South Carolina legislation creating a Christian-themed state license plate, bearing a large cross superimposed on a stained-glass window and the words “I Believe.” Fri, 22 Jan 2010 10:42:06 -0600 www.au.org-33229753 http://www.au.org/what-we-do/lawsuits/archives/truth-v-kent-school-district.html Challenge by Truth, a religious student club, to policy of Kent School District in Washington of prohibiting student clubs from receiving school recognition or funding if they discriminate on various grounds, including religion. Fri, 22 Jan 2010 10:01:39 -0600 www.au.org-33229548 http://www.au.org/what-we-do/lawsuits/archives/strauss-v-horton.html Challenge to Proposition 8, which purported to add to the California Constitution a provision stating that "Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California." Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:18:29 -0600 www.au.org-33221051 http://www.au.org/what-we-do/lawsuits/archives/croft-v-perry.html Challenge to Texas moment-of-silence statute that made mandatory a previously optional moment of silence for public-school students to "reflect, pray, meditate, or engage in any other silent activity that is not likely to interfere with or distract another student." Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:16:15 -0600 www.au.org-33218668 http://www.au.org/what-we-do/lawsuits/archives/borden-v-school-district-of.html Challenge by New Jersey high-school football coach to school's instruction that he stop leading his team in prayer, on the ground that the instruction violated his free-expression-of-religion and academic-freedom rights. Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:15:09 -0600 www.au.org-33217237 http://www.au.org/what-we-do/lawsuits/archives/cain-v-horne.html Challenge to Arizona scholarship programs under which students can use scholarships to attend any qualifying school of their choice, including parochial schools. Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:13:19 -0600 www.au.org-33230174 http://www.au.org/what-we-do/lawsuits/archives/joyner-v-forsyth-county.html Challenge to practice of In Forsyth County Board of Supervisors, in North Carolina, of inviting local clergy to deliver sectarian prayers at Board meetings. Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:06:22 -0600 www.au.org-33230004 http://www.au.org/what-we-do/lawsuits/archives/galloway-v-town-of-greece.html Challenge to longstanding practice of Town Board of Greece, New York, of inviting clergy to open the Board’s monthly meetings with sectarian prayer. Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:04:12 -0600 www.au.org-33229251 http://www.au.org/what-we-do/lawsuits/archives/stormans-v-selecky.html Challenge by pharmacists to Washington regulation requiring pharmacies to dispense lawfully prescribed drugs (including "Plan B") but allowing individual pharmacists to have a colleague fill a perscription if they themselves object to filling it for religious or moral reasons. Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:02:10 -0600 www.au.org-33227752 http://www.au.org/what-we-do/lawsuits/archives/christian-legal-society-v.html Challenge by Christian Legal Society to University of California Hastings College of Law’s nondiscrimination policy, which prohibits official recognition of student organizations that discriminate on the basis of, among other things, religion and sexual orientation. Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:59:49 -0600 www.au.org-33227055 http://www.au.org/what-we-do/lawsuits/archives/summum-v-pleasant-grove-city.html Challenge to a municipality's decision not to allow members of the Summum religion to erect a monument in a public park. Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:51:43 -0600 www.au.org-76578965 http://www.au.org/what-we-do/lawsuits/archives/salazar.html Challenge to the presence of a Latin cross on federal land in the Mojave National Preserve in California. Thu, 10 Dec 2009 14:58:59 -0600 www.au.org-33222578 http://www.au.org/what-we-do/lawsuits/archives/jewish-war-veterans-of-the.html Challenge to 43-foot-tall Latin cross on government property atop of Mt. Soledad in La Jolla, California. Thu, 10 Dec 2009 14:54:42 -0600 www.au.org-33222372 http://www.au.org/what-we-do/lawsuits/archives/green-v-board-of-county.html Challenge to eight-foot-tall monument with the Ten Commandments engraved on one side that was erected on the Haskell County courthouse lawn in Stigler, Oklahoma. Thu, 10 Dec 2009 14:51:40 -0600 www.au.org-33221917 http://www.au.org/what-we-do/lawsuits/archives/nurre-v-whitehead.html Challenge by Washington high-school senior to school's rejection of decision by students in wind ensemble to play Ave Maria at graduation because of the song’s religious nature. Thu, 10 Dec 2009 14:12:44 -0600 www.au.org-33221609 http://www.au.org/what-we-do/lawsuits/archives/roarkdoe-v-south-iron-r-1.html Challenge to practice of South Iron R-1 School District in Missouri of allowing the Gideons to visit fifth-grade classrooms to distribute Bibles to students during class time. Thu, 10 Dec 2009 14:10:41 -0600 www.au.org-105754733 http://www.au.org/what-we-do/lawsuits/archives/aa-v-needville-independent.html Challenge to public-school district's grooming policy requiring boys to wear their hair short by parents of a Native American kindergartner who wears his hair long and in braids in accordance with his family's religious beliefs. Thu, 10 Dec 2009 14:03:31 -0600 www.au.org-33220000 http://www.au.org/what-we-do/lawsuits/archives/busch-v-marple-newtown.html Challenge by Pennsylvania parent of kindergarten student to school's denial of her request to read a Bible passage to kindergarten students, where parents had been invited to come into the classroom and share a talent, game, craft, or story with the class. Thu, 10 Dec 2009 13:51:32 -0600 www.au.org-76568299 http://www.au.org/what-we-do/lawsuits/archives/university-of-the-cumberlands.html Challenge to $10 million appropriation by the Kentucky General Assembly for construction of a pharmacy-school building on the campus of the religious institution University of the Cumberlands. Thu, 10 Dec 2009 12:40:44 -0600 www.au.org-53861015 http://www.au.org/what-we-do/lawsuits/archives/pedreira-v-kentucky-baptist.html Challenge to State of Kentucky's practice of financing Kentucky Baptist Homes for Children, which discriminates against gay employees on religious grounds and teaches sectarian beliefs to its young residents. Thu, 10 Dec 2009 12:38:09 -0600 www.au.org-53858697 http://www.au.org/what-we-do/lawsuits/archives/cooper-v-us-postal-service.html Challenge to contract between U.S. Postal service and church that allows church to operate postal unit while displaying religious symbols in the unit. Thu, 10 Dec 2009 12:31:03 -0600 www.au.org-33201193 http://www.au.org/what-we-do/lawsuits/archives/bowman-v-united-states.html Challenge by former member of military to regulation under which his work as lay intern and then as pastor at church did not qualify for credit under the federal Program to Encourage Public and Community Service -- which would have entitled him to larger pension payments. Thu, 10 Dec 2009 11:47:20 -0600 www.au.org-33200848 http://www.au.org/what-we-do/lawsuits/archives/barnes-wallace-v-city-of-san.html Challenge to practice of City of San Diego, in California, of leasing large parcels of prime parkland to the Boy Scouts of America at nominal rates. Thu, 10 Dec 2009 11:44:56 -0600 www.au.org-53868616 http://www.au.org/what-we-do/lawsuits/archives/american-atheists-v-detroit.html Challenge to Detroit’s "Facade Improvement Program," under which tax dollars are used to reimburse property owners -- including churches -- for the costs of improvements to the exteriors of buildings. Thu, 10 Dec 2009 11:38:57 -0600 www.au.org-76765146 http://www.au.org/what-we-do/lawsuits/archives/americans-united-v-prison.html Challenge to InnerChange Freedom Initiative, a publicly supported, pervasively religious program for inmates in an Iowa prison. Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:10:47 -0500 www.au.org-78266847 http://www.au.org/what-we-do/lawsuits/archives/goldberg-v-goldberg.html Challenge to Texas judge's ruling in child custody matter that a lesbian mother could not take her daughter to services at a church with a gay/lesbian Christian congregation beacuse it was not a "mainline" church. Fri, 18 Sep 2009 11:37:49 -0500 www.au.org-78246911 http://www.au.org/what-we-do/lawsuits/archives/catholic-charities-of.html Opposition to challenge of California law obligating employers who provide prescription drug benefits as part of a health insurance plan to include benefits for prescription contraception. Fri, 18 Sep 2009 11:37:06 -0500 www.au.org-76830655 http://www.au.org/what-we-do/lawsuits/archives/winkler-v-gates.html Challenge to federal statute authorizing the Department of Defense to host the National Jamboree of the Boy Scouts of America, a religious organization, at a U.S. military base. Fri, 18 Sep 2009 11:35:42 -0500 www.au.org-76829893 http://www.au.org/what-we-do/lawsuits/archives/university-of-wisconsin-v.html Lawsuit involving challenge by religious students to the University of Wisconsin's student fee system which they alleged required them to pay for activities of student clubs with whose social positions they disagreed. Fri, 18 Sep 2009 11:35:10 -0500 www.au.org-76829067 http://www.au.org/what-we-do/lawsuits/archives/person-v-mayor-and-city.html Challenge to City of Baltimore's disbursement of taxpayer funds to the National Baptist Convention, which were intended to support a Convention-organized event involving proselytizing to the hungry. Fri, 18 Sep 2009 11:34:36 -0500 www.au.org-76826819 http://www.au.org/what-we-do/lawsuits/archives/national-organization-for.html Challenge to agreement between Bayfront Medical Center, a public hospital in St. Petersburg, Florida, and a group of Catholic hospitals, which obligated Bayfront to follow the ethical and religious directives of Catholic health services. Fri, 18 Sep 2009 11:34:06 -0500 www.au.org-76825763 http://www.au.org/what-we-do/lawsuits/archives/moeller-v-bradford-county.html Challenge to federal, state, and local funding of the Firm Foundation, an organization that ran a religious vocational-training program for inmates in the Bradford County, Pennsylvania, jail. Fri, 18 Sep 2009 11:33:32 -0500 www.au.org-76823910 http://www.au.org/what-we-do/lawsuits/archives/mitchell-v-helms.html Challenge to statute under which the federal government distributes funds to state and local government agencies, which in turn lend educational materials and equipment to public and private schools, including religious schools. Fri, 18 Sep 2009 11:32:50 -0500 www.au.org-76819636 http://www.au.org/what-we-do/lawsuits/archives/lynn-v-virginia-college.html Challenge to Virginia program under which Regent University, an arm of Pat Robertson's ministry, would be granted over $50 million in state low-interest bonds. Fri, 18 Sep 2009 11:32:14 -0500 www.au.org-76814091 http://www.au.org/what-we-do/lawsuits/archives/gallwey-v-grimm.html Challenge to Washington State program to provide state funds to eligible students for tuition at public or private universities, including those that are sectarian. Fri, 18 Sep 2009 11:30:55 -0500 www.au.org-76807614 http://www.au.org/what-we-do/lawsuits/archives/freedom-from-religion.html Challenge to Wisconsin's funding of Faith Works, a religious drug and alcohol treatment center. Fri, 18 Sep 2009 11:30:27 -0500 www.au.org-76798774 http://www.au.org/what-we-do/lawsuits/archives/doe-v-norton.html Challenge to Congressional authorization to spend $10 million in federal funds for repairing historic missions in California, virtually all of which were fully functioning houses of worship. Fri, 18 Sep 2009 11:29:50 -0500 www.au.org-78265158 http://www.au.org/what-we-do/lawsuits/archives/branch-ministries-v-rossotti.html Opposition to church's challenge to revocation of its tax-exempt status by IRS because church had encouraged Christians to vote against presidential candidate Bill Clinton. Fri, 18 Sep 2009 11:13:09 -0500 www.au.org-76791199 http://www.au.org/what-we-do/lawsuits/archives/columbia-union-college-v.html Opposition to Columbia Union College's challenge to decision by Maryland Higher Education Commission to disallow it from participating in state grant program because the college was pervasively sectarian. Fri, 18 Sep 2009 11:12:08 -0500