Religion & Law

Police Contradict Part of Church Storming Story
My colleague Todd Heywood has been working on this story about Bash Back disrupting a church service in the Lansing area and he's found that some of the worst accusations appear to be false...

Radical Group Sued By Church Under Little-Known Federal Provision
Alliance Defense Fund on Wednesday announced the filing of an interesting lawsuit in federal district court in Michigan. The Freedom of Access To Clinic Entrances Act, 18 USC Sec. 248, in addition to protecting abortion clinics, contains a little-known provision banning forcible obstruction or intimidation of anyone exercising the First Amendment right of religious freedom at a place of religious worship...

Ruling in funeral-protest case restates First Amendment principles
Today's decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to back the right of a small Kansas church to protest outside military funerals is shocking ? and not surprising at all. Read more on Yahoo! News.

Westboro Baptist Church Ruling Threatens Michigan Funeral Protest Law
The Supreme Count ruling allowing Westboro Baptist Church to continue anti-gay funeral protests, under First Amendment rights, may overturn the 2006 Michigan Funeral Protest Law. Michigan is one of 41 other states that passed funeral protest laws in 2006, in direct response to Westboro Baptist Church...

Lansing Lugnuts' ballpark renamed for Cooley Law School (Detroit News)
Lansing -- The Lansing Lugnuts now have the law on their side.

Westboro Baptist Church Target of New Law Banning Protest at Ariz. Shooting Victims' Funerals
Notorious Kansas Church Plans Protest, Claims "God Sent the shooter to deal with idolatrous America"

Law & Order Depicts Police Procedures and Criminal Justice
Accuracy of Criminal Justice Depiction on Television

Selection of State Supreme Court Judges
How State Court Judges are Selected

Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Career Choices
Descriptions of law enforcement occupations

Domestic Violence
Women's Rights

Privacy Protection Act 42 USC 21A
Federal Newsroom Law

California Supreme Court Proposition 8 Decision
Court Rejects Challenges to Proposition 8, but Finds Marriages Valid

The Bay Presbyterian Church
$700,000 settlement reached in church split case.

Windows Software
Microsoft fined $1.3 billion for failing to comply with the European Union's antitrust order.

Roman Catholic Church
Diocese of Antigonish faces class action over abuse by a priest

Chattanooga, TN
Seven months in back pay resolves pepper spray dispute.

Deja Vu
Exotic Dancers file class action claiming back wages

Canadian Government
former RCMP officer claims thousands of disability dollars clawed back.