Religion & Law

Crusade In The Classroom: Clashes Over Religion In Public Schools Plague Georgia And Texas
Disputes over religion in public schools are perennial. Some people, it seems, just won?t accept that fact that public schools are for teaching, not preaching. Three recent developments bear watching...

Houston schools step up K-9 drug searches www.privateofficer.com
Houston schools step up K-9 drug searches www.privateofficer.com Houston TX Dec 16 2008 chron.com Since the beginning of October, more than a dozen Houston Independent School District employees, mostly teachers, have been arrested after small amounts of marijuana or undocumented prescription drugs were found in their vehicles parked on campuses...

All Of The Texas Law Schools
Texas has nine law schools in the state. Four are public law schools. These are the University of Houston, Texas Southern University, The University of Texas, Texas Tech University...

"Battling Anew Over the Place of Religion in Public Schools"
"Battling Anew Over the Place of Religion in Public Schools": Wednesday's edition of The New York Times will contain an article that begins, "It has been nearly 50 years since the Supreme Court ruled that officially sponsored prayer in public schools violated the separation of church and state...

Call for Papers: Religion in Law and Law in Religion
RELIGIOUS LEGAL THEORY CONFERENCE: RELIGION IN LAW AND LAW IN RELIGION Center for Law, Religion, and the Global Community St. John?s University School of Law New York November 5, 2010 This annual symposium, to be shared among different law schools and now in its second year, addresses a broad range of topics...

Order Admitting Whitney Houston's Will and Codicil to Probate
Whitney Houston?s attorneys have confirmed that Marion P. Houston was appointed as Administrator of the Estate of Whitney E. Houston in Fulton County Probate Court in Georgia. Houston?s daughter, Bobbi Christina Brown, is the sole beneficiary...

Dumb Texas Laws
Stupid Laws in the Lone Star State

Aetna Life Insurance
Houston Woman Denied $426,000

GNG Marketing Violations
Georgia Natural Gas to pay customers $2.5 million in settlement.

KeyBank USA
alleging the bank offered loans for fraudulent vocational schools.

Walt Disney
alleging a Sikh American applied for a job with Disney but was told he did not have the "Disney look" - apparently referring to his beard and turban, which is required by his religion.

Kamehameha Schools
$7 million non-native Hawaiian racial discrimination settlement.