Religion & Law

ACLU Challenges Governments Stigmatizing Of Mainstream Muslim Groups In Holy Land Case
The ACLU has issued this press release. It begins: The American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Texas filed a legal challenge today to clear the names of two mainstream Muslim organizations labeled by the government as “unindicted co-conspirators” in its criminal case against the Holy Land Foundation (HLF)...

Holy Land Foundation - Redeux
Jury selection (such as it is in federal court) begins today in the retrial of five defendants charged in United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas of various crimes associated with funding terrorism...

"Key evidence unveiled against former Richardson Muslim charity in Holy Land case"
"Key evidence unveiled against former Richardson Muslim charity in Holy Land case": This article appears today in The Dallas Morning News.

Voir Dire Proving Tricky in Holy Land Foundation Case
Ghassan Elashi (L), CEO of the Holy Land Foundation and spokesman John Janney (R) speak with the media December 5, 2001 during a press conference in Richardson, Texas. (Photo by Ronald Martinez/Getty Images) We don’t often cover jury selection here at the Law Blog, but voir dire in the Holy Land Foundation case has proven particularly interesting...

Saint Vincent Lombardi - Super Bowl Sunday - A Holy Day Of Obligation
The Super Bowl falls on a Sunday so it is a holy day of obligation. But, maybe, as history tells us, it ought to be much more. As stated by Saint Vincent Lombardi, "I have the strength of twelve men, for my defensive line is pure...

Wisconsin: Groups want to buy Holmen land to remove star and cross
The New Richmond News reports that the Freedom from Religion Foundation and the American Humanists have bid on public land that contains a star and a cross so that they can remove the symbols...

Soliris Patent
Alexion Pharmaceuticals Inc. agrees to pay the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation a $10 million patent infringement settlement.

Convicted Caretakers
Senior care center agrees to $175,000 settlement in false advertising lawsuit.

City Streets and Jake Aaron Strickland
$1.2 million wrongful death settlement awarded after a husband and father was killed by a convicted drunk driver.

The Land of Nod
Recalls Children’s Canopies

Tennesse Power Utility
Dam Bursts, Floods Homes and Land

Commonwealth Land Title Insurance Co.
allegedly failed to give policyholders discounted rates to which they were entitled.