Becket Case Database

In May 2017, President Trump issued an Executive Order directing HHS and other federal agencies to protect the Little Sisters of the Poor and other religious ministries from the HHS Mandate. Following...

Religious liberty and LGBT rights don’t have to be in conflict. No one knows that better than Gayle Myrick. Targeted for her religious beliefs Gayle Myrick was a highly qualified and well-respected...

Searching for a house of worship The Chabad of East Boca is an Orthodox Jewish synagogue in Florida that provides religious worship, outreach, and educational services. Like many other faith groups,...

In January 2018, after going all the way to the Supreme Court, three disaster-damaged churches defeated a decades-old federal rule that unfairly banned disaster relief aid for houses of worship just...

The United States Military Academy at West Point will now accommodate Sikh soldiers, allowing them to wear their essential articles of faith, after two young men persisted for the right to serve...

The City of Euless, Texas tried to stop Jose Merced, a Santeria priest, from performing certain religious rituals in his own home. Becket stepped in to protect him. A unanimous panel of the Fifth...

In March 2017, President Donald Trump issued an executive order banning entry for ninety days by citizens from six majority Muslim countries, raising serious religious freedom concerns. Plaintiffs...

In a case involving the constitutionality of a cross memorial in the Mojave Desert, Becket’s amicus brief argued that the court of appeals should be reversed, because the plaintiff lacked...

In 2012, a government mandate threatened Wheaton College, a Christian school and one of the top liberal arts colleges in the country, with crippling fines unless it violated its religious beliefs....

This case involves an unprecedented government regulation of Jewish religious circumcision practices. Last year the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene issued a new circumcision...

The story of Lina Joy is a poignant illustration of what happens when the government rejects the notion that individual conviction and choice have a role in religious belief. Lina Joy was born into an...

The Hutterites are a peaceful and industrious people who have lived every aspect of their lives in religious communities for almost 500 years—eating meals in a communal dining hall, educating their...

A former teacher of Hebrew and Jewish studies sued a Wisconsin Jewish Day School in 2016 for unlawful termination. Becket filed an amicus brief in support of the school, explaining that religious...

In 2011, Douglas County, Colorado created the Choice Scholarship Program to help low-income families send their children to a private school that best suits their child’s needs, some of which are...

The Society of American Bosnians and Herzegovinians is a small Muslim community in a Chicago suburb with approximately 160 members that observes a Sufi approach to Islam. For years, the Society...

Churches must have the right to follow their own religious rules, even if some church members disagree with how those rules apply to them. In this case, a disgruntled minister who had failed a church...

When lawyers and anti-religious academics attempted to insert government in selecting religious leaders at a religious school in upstate New York, Becket pushed back, winning a major victory for the...

Advocate Health Care Network v. Stapleton St. Peter’s Healthcare v. Kaplan Dignity Health v. Rollins Overall v. Ascension Health Status: On June 5, 2017, U.S. Supreme Court voted unanimously 8-0...

A suburban New Jersey town denied a small Muslim congregation the right to build a new mosque where it could meet to worship. So the congregation went to court. A small mosque with a big dream...