The J. Reuben Clark Law Society is hosting a Religious Liberty writing competition for law students in the United States. The competition provides an opportunity for second and third year law students to write scholarly papers on the topic of religious liberty under the United States Constitution. The submission deadline is January 31, 2026, and selection will take place by the middle of March. Details below:
Here are some important law-and-religion news stories from around the web:
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed suit against the state’s Higher Education Board claiming that the state’s work-study program’s requirement that work be provided in ‘nonsectarian activities’, violates the Free Exercise clause.
The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal by a Christian school that argued that its free speech rights were violated when it was barred from playing a prayer over the loudspeaker at a football game.
In Pritchard v. Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois, the 9th Circuit remanded a suit alleging that Blue Cross is liable under the anti-discrimination portion of the Affordable Care Act for enforcing a religious-based exclusion regarding coverage of gender dysphoria.
The New York Times reports on a surge of interest among younger Americans, especially young men, in Orthodox Christianity.
In Jeanpierre v. Trump, a Utah district court dismissed a lawsuit by the founder of Black Flag, a religious organization, claiming that the President’s Executive order infringed his Free Exercise rights.
