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Public Dollars, Private Discrimination: Protecting LGBT Students from School Voucher Discrimination

Benesch on 9/26/2023

More than a dozen states operate school voucher programs, which allow parents to apply state tax dollars to their children’s private school tuition. Many schools that participate in voucher programs are affiliated with...more

Court Admonishes Village for Adopting Laws with a Discriminatory Purpose

Farrell Fritz, P.C. on 5/7/2018

Local governments in New York may regulate land use within their borders directly through their zoning codes and indirectly by adopting a variety of other statutes and regulations. ...more

Tax-Exempt Financing of Churches, Parochial Schools and Other Sectarian Institutions After Trinity Lutheran Church: Permitted? ...

Mintz - Public Finance Viewpoints on 6/28/2017

The U.S. Supreme Court’s June 26 opinion in Trinity Lutheran Church of Columbia, Inc. v. Comer, precluding states from discriminating against churches in at least some state financing programs, raises anew the question of...more

Religious Institutions Update: October 2016

Holland & Knight LLP on 10/27/2016

Timely Topics - The final rule implementing Section 1557 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) was issued by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) on May...more

The NLRB Goes Back to Church (Schools), Gets Entangled

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 9/2/2015

In our June 2015 blog post, “NLRB Moves to Assert Jurisdiction Over Religious Educational Institutions,” we reported that Regional Directors of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) were beginning to exercise jurisdiction...more

Spiritual Director Doesn't Have a Prayer When it Comes to Her Discrimination and Termination Claims

Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP on 2/24/2015

Religious employers can rejoice once again, as yet another court upholds the ministerial exception and dismisses an employee's discrimination and termination claims....more

District of Columbia Passes Two New Non-Discrimination Laws Impacting Employers

Proskauer - Law and the Workplace on 1/30/2015

Earlier this week, D.C.’s Mayor signed two new measures amending the D.C. Human Rights Act (“DCHRA”) to prohibit (1) discrimination against employees of religiously-affiliated educational institutions on the basis of sexual...more

Religious Institutions: June 2013

Holland & Knight LLP on 6/6/2013

Do you know a "place of public accommodation" when you see it? Federal, state and sometimes local laws entitle persons to the full and equal employment of the goods, services, facilities, privileges, advantages and...more

Woman Files Lawsuit Against Christian School Alleging Pregnancy Discrimination

Ervin Cohen & Jessup LLP on 3/8/2013

Teri James, a former employee of San Diego Christian College in El Cajon, recently filed a wrongful termination lawsuit against the educational institution for allegedly firing her from her position as a financial aid...more

Christian School Files Lawsuit Against Former Teachers

Ervin Cohen & Jessup LLP on 3/6/2013

The Little Oaks Private School, a Christian school based in Thousand Oaks, California, recently filed a lawsuit against two of its former teachers after they threatened a lawsuit. The teachers were fired last August when they...more

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