report | Jan 18, 2006

Supreme Court Declines to Issue Major Abortion Ruling

Parental Notification Case is to be Sent Back to an Appeals Court A unanimous Supreme Court today declined to rule on a New Hampshire abortion statute and instead instructed a federal appeals court to reconsider the statute’s constitutionality. Moreover, the justices determined that the lower court had erred in invalidating the entire law and instructed […]

report | Jan 17, 2006

Supreme Court Upholds Oregon’s Right to Die Law

The Federal Government’s Attempt to Use an Anti-Drug Law to Stop Physician-Assisted Suicide Fails By a 6-3 vote, the Supreme Court today upheld Oregon’s assisted-suicide law, rejecting an attempt by the Bush administration to use a federal anti-drug law to prohibit doctors from helping terminally ill patients to end their own lives. The decision is […]

report | Dec 20, 2005

Federal Court Strikes Down Intelligent Design Curriculum

District Court Contends that Dover, Pa., Challenge to Teaching Evolution is an Unconstitutional Endorsement of Religion A federal district court judge ruled today that a Pennsylvania school board’s decision to include intelligent design in the high school science curriculum was an unconstitutional endorsement of religion. The case, Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, was the […]

report | Nov 11, 2005

Pew Forum Partners with Brookings and American University to launch New Initiative

Akbar Ahmed to Lead Exploration of Islam in the Age of Globalization The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution, and American University’s School of International Service are pleased to announce the launch of a new joint initiative: Islam in the Age of Globalization. […]

report | Sep 27, 2005

Leading Experts and Activists to Participate in Town Hall Meeting on the Role of Evangelicals in Global Human Rights and Bush Administration Foreign Policy

The Oct. 6th Newsmaker Panel to be Co-Hosted by America Abroad Media’s; Marvin Kalb and WAMU 88.5 FM’s Kojo Nnamdi at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, D.C. Leading experts and activists will gather for a special town hall meeting on Thursday, Oct. 6, to discuss the growing influence of America’s evangelical Christian movement on […]

report | Jun 28, 2005

Church-State Experts React to Ten Commandments Decisions

More Challenges to Decalogue Displays Are Likely A closely divided Supreme Court yesterday issued two decisions on the legality of Ten Commandments displays in public buildings and on public property. The court struck down the Decalogue displays in two Kentucky courthouses but upheld the constitutionality of a Ten Commandments monument on the grounds of the […]

report | Jun 27, 2005

Supreme Court Rules on Ten Commandments Displays

Survey Shows Broad Public Support for the Displays, But Differences Exist Across Religious Traditions A closely divided Supreme Court today issued two decisions on the legality of Ten Commandments displays in public buildings and on public property. The court struck down the Decalogue displays in two Kentucky courthouses but upheld the constitutionality of a Ten […]

report | Jun 14, 2005

John C. Green of the University of Akron joins the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life

Director of the Bliss Institute will be a senior fellow in religion and American politics The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life announced today that Dr. John C. Green will join the Forum as a senior fellow in religion and American politics during the 2005-06 academic year. Green, one of the nation’s foremost experts […]

report | Jun 13, 2005

Pew Forum Releases New Analysis of High Court’s RLUIPA Decision

The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life today released an analysis of the recent Supreme Court decision in Cutter v. Wilkinson. The May 31 ruling upheld the constitutionality of the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA), a federal law that aims to protect the religious freedom of inmates and others held in […]

report | Jun 1, 2005

Supreme Court Rules RLUIPA Does Not Violate Establishment Clause

Church-State Experts React to Unanimous Ruling The Supreme Court yesterday upheld the constitutionality of the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA), a federal law that aims to protect the religious freedom of inmates and others held in state and local institutions. The unanimous decision in Cutter v. Wilkinson reverses a ruling by the […]

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