Here are some important law-and-religion news stories from around the web:

• In Jarrard v. Sheriff of Polk County, the Eleventh Circuit held that Georgia jail officials violated the Free Speech clause of the First Amendment when they dismissed and continually denied the reapplication of a volunteer jail minister. The court found that the jail officials engaged in viewpoint discrimination based primarily on their theological disagreement with the petitioner’s beliefs on baptism and that even if they were concerned about inmate well-being and potential problems for jail administration, the jail did not pursue the least restrictive means to preserve petitioner’s right to express his beliefs.
• In Case of Pindo Mulla v. Spain, the European Court of Human Rights held that a Spanish court had violated the European Convention on Human Rights by authorizing a blood transfusion for a critically bleeding woman who had refused blood transfusions due to her beliefs as a Jehovah’s Witness.
• Amid current controversies relating over the sale of the “Cow’s Garden,” Armenian Christians strive to maintain their centuries-long presence in Jerusalem’s Old City.
• The United Kingdom’s Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs has recently come under criticism for his blog post stating that Azerbaijan has been able to “liberate” the region of Nagorno-Karabakh. Azerbaijan conducted an ethnic cleansing of the region’s 120,000 Christian Armenians in violation of an order from the International Court of Justice.