Here are some important law-and-religion news stories from around the web:
- In Leach v. Gateway Church, a federal district court in Texas refused to dismiss a case alleging misappropriation of tithed funds.
- In Detwiler v. Mid-Columbia Medical Center, the 9th Circuit upheld a district court’s dismissal of a Title VII suit wherein the plaintiff rejected a religious accommodation to the Covid vaccine because of a mandatory antigen testing requirement.
- Yet another lawsuit was filed in Texas seeking an injunction in school districts that are being made to comply with a Texas statute, which requires public school classrooms to display the Ten Commandments.
- In American Marriage Ministries v. Collins, an organization that ordains ministers online sued Tennessee officials over a law that says those who receive online ordination may not solemnize marriages.
- In Truth Family Bible Church Middleton v. Idaho Housing and Finance Association, a district court held that the plaintiff’s First Amendment rights were violated by the termination of their lease of a school gym because it was to be used for Sunday Services.