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Amicus Brief: Individual Members of the Medical Licensing Board of Indiana v. Anonymous Plaintiff 1
LRRP filed an amicus brief in an Indiana Supreme Court case considering whether to uphold a lower court ruling that created religious exemptions from the state’s near-total abortion ban.
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: Ahmad Awad, et. al v. Fordham University
Professor Katherine Franke, Founding Director of the Law, Rights & Religion Project, filed an amicus brief in support of Ahmad Awad, Sofia Dadap, Sapphira Lurie, and Julie Norris in their lawsuit against Fordham University.
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 in a case challenging rules that exempt employers with religious/moral objections from compliance with the contraceptive coverage requirement of the Affordable Care Act. The brief explains that these rules conflict with constitutional religious liberty law by requiring employees to 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. 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 and Fact Sheet: Zubik v. Burwell
LRRP assisted the Counsel for Church-State Scholars in the preparation of an amicus brief submitted in the Supreme Court of the United States case of Zubik v. Burwell. We also issued a fact sheet exploring what women of color have at stake in this round of litigation over the ACA.