Becket Case Database

It was supposed to be like any other house of worship… In 2010, the Muslim community in Murfreesboro, Tennessee began building a mosque and community center. Little did they know, their innocuous...

In 2009, the City of Baltimore passed an ordinance targeting the Greater Baltimore Center for Pregnancy Concerns, a pregnancy center with a mission to protect the physical, emotional and spiritual...

Government has no right to silence one side of any debate, let alone one as deeply important to people on all sides as abortion. But in 2015, California enacted the Freedom, Accountability,...

Every Christmas season, the Archdiocese of Washington, D.C., conducts a holiday campaign called “Find the Perfect Gift” to remind people of the religious meaning of Christmas and to invite them to...

In 2015, Mark Janus, a government employee at the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Service, sued his union—the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees. Janus argued that...

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...

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....

A family seeking the American Dream         David and Barbara Green founded Hobby Lobby in a garage. From the beginning, it has been a family business—David worked an extra job to support his...

A mountain memorial to honor fallen soldiers Since 1954, a statue of Jesus has stood atop a Montana ski slope as a monument to soldiers who died in World War II. After World War II, soldiers from the...

Colorado Christian University is the first interdenominational Christian college to challenge in federal court a new Obamacare mandate that requires private employers to pay for abortifacients in...

Jim Towey, President of Ave Maria University, knows first-hand the immense value religious people of all faiths bring to the public square and is determined to stop the Administration’s efforts to...

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...

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 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...

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...