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Amicus Brief: Individual Members of the Medical Licensing Board of Indiana v. Anonymous Plaintiff 1
LRRP urged the Indiana Supreme Court to leave in place a ruling that religious Hoosiers whose faith requires abortion care are entitled to an exemption from the state's near-total ban.
Amicus Brief: Individual Members of the Medical Licensing Board of Indiana v. Anonymous Plaintiff 1
LRRP's amicus brief in Individual Members of the Medical Licensing Board of Indiana v. Anonymous Plaintiff 1 argues that Indiana's RFRA codifies a right to a religiously motivated abortion, drawing on research from religious studies scholars and the first-hand accounts of abortion patients across Christian, Jewish, and Muslim traditions.
Amicus Brief: Jane Doe, Petitioners v. Attorney General of Indiana
LRRP and partners filed an amicus brief arguing that Free Exercise Rights would be burdened by Indiana's Fetal Tissue Disposition Law.
Amicus Brief: Historians of Religion, Reproduction, and the Law (Indiana MLB v. Anonymous Plaintiff 1)
Historians showed the Indiana Court of Appeals that faith-based support for abortion access has deep historical roots, answering the State's claim that the plaintiffs' beliefs were insincere.
Amicus Brief: 303 Creative v. Elenis
LRRP joined Muslim Advocates, Americans United, and 28 other organizations in warning the Supreme Court that a broad First Amendment exemption from anti-discrimination law would fall hardest on religious minorities.
Amicus Brief: EEOC and Aimee Stephens v. R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes
LRRP argued in the Sixth Circuit that a religious exemption from Title VII would shift the cost of the employer's beliefs onto the employee it discriminated against.
Amicus Brief: Gateway City Church v. Newsom
Church-state scholars argued that Santa Clara County sorted activities by health risk rather than religion, and that exempting worship alone would unconstitutionally privilege it.
Amicus Brief: Danville Christian Academy v. Beshear
Church-state scholars urged the Supreme Court to leave Kentucky's school closure order undisturbed, arguing that exempting only religious schools would itself establish religion.
Amicus Brief: Sharonell Fulton v. City of Philadelphia
Professor Katherine Franke joins amicus brief with eight other scholars of church-state law filed in Fulton v. City of Philadelphia.
Amicus Brief and Press Advisory: Safehouse v. Department of Justice
LRRP and fellow legal scholars file brief in case in which the Department of Justice rejects religious liberty rights of non-profit that provides safe space to injection drug users.
Amicus Brief and Press Advisory: USA v. Hoffman, et al.
Nationally recognized law professors with expertise in religious liberty law filed an amicus brief in the appeal of the convictions of four sanctuary activists who were found guilty in the crime of leaving water and food in the desert for migrants.
Amicus Brief and Fact Sheet: Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and New Jersey v. Trump
Prof. Katherine Franke joined an amicus brief arguing that rules letting employers opt out of the Affordable Care Act's contraceptive coverage requirement invert religious liberty law by making employees bear the cost of their employer's beliefs.
Amicus Briefs: U.S. v. Deighan, U.S. v. Hoffman
LRRP’s Founding Director, Katherine Franke, filed two amicus briefs in support of activists from the migrant relief group No More Deaths.
Amicus Brief: U.S. v. Kelly (Kings Bay Plowshares)
Three law professors filed in support of neither party to correct the government's account of what the Religious Freedom Restoration Act requires when faith-motivated action is prosecuted as a crime.
Amicus Brief: U.S. v. Scott Warren
Five prominent professors of law and religion, including LRRP’s Founding Director, Katherine Franke, filed an amicus brief in support of Dr. Scott Warren, a humanitarian aid worker who faces up to twenty years in prison for providing food and shelter to migrants crossing the Arizona desert.
Amicus Brief: Masterpiece Cakeshop, Ltd. v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission
LRRP joined Muslim Advocates and 13 other faith and civil rights organizations in urging the Supreme Court to reject a bakery's claim that religious belief justified refusing service to a same-sex couple, arguing that anti-discrimination protections are not in tension with religious liberty, but essential to it.
Amicus Brief and Fact Sheet: Zubik v. Burwell
LRRP helped Church-State Scholars prepare their Supreme Court brief in Zubik v. Burwell, and issued a companion fact sheet on what women of color stood to lose in the fight over contraceptive coverage.