Becket Case Database

The Intervarsity Christian Fellowship student group on Michigan’s Wayne State University has been on campus for over 75 years, holding Bible studies, hosting discussions on important campus issues,...

Support Circle is a non-profit clinic and counseling center in the San Francisco Bay Area that provides pregnancy testing, ultrasounds, counseling, and support to women looking for resources as they...

On October 6, 2017, Health & Human Services issued a new rule with an updated, broad religious exemption that finally protected religious non-profits like the Little Sisters of the Poor, a group of...

A 64-year-old tax-exempt housing allowance permits religious leaders to live near their congregations. But an atheist group sued to end this tax law, harming pastors, rabbis, imams and other faith...

A historic African American church in Pittsburgh is defending its right to hold its own pastor accountable for failed religious leadership. When Sixth Mount Zion Baptist Church terminated a...

New Mexico is ranked lowest of all 50 states when it comes to education. Now, a lawsuit threatens to make it even harder for New Mexico school children to get the quality education they deserve. In...

On October 6, 2017, Health & Human Services issued a new rule with an updated, broad religious exemption that finally protected religious non-profits like the Little Sisters of the Poor, a group of...

President Donald Trump has issued a series of executive orders banning entry for citizens of certain Muslim-majority countries. Becket filed an amicus brief when one of the orders came...

Nationwide, we face a crisis-level shortage of families willing to foster and adopt. But in 2017, the ACLU sued the State of Michigan to shut down its partnerships with faith-based foster...

Children in Montana have been stripped of their right to participate in a modest scholarship program simply because they attend religious schools.   In 2015 the state legislature passed the Montana...

A commitment to care for women In Baltimore, a woman facing an unplanned pregnancy can always turn to the Greater Baltimore Center for Pregnancy Concerns for help. The Center, which operates on...

A historic cross in a historic city The City of Pensacola has a rich history older than the U.S. itself. A key seaport connected to the Gulf of Mexico, it is named after the Native American people who...

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...

A new regulation issued by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) would force doctors to perform gender transition procedures on any child referred by a mental professional, even if the...

A new regulation issued by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) would force doctors to perform gender transition procedures on children, even if the doctor believes the procedure could...

Thirty years ago, a cloistered nun named Mother Angelica started a small television network in her monastery garage to spread the teachings of the Catholic Church. Today, the network she started,...

On issues as divisive as abortion, it is vital that the government does not silence one side of the debate. The First Amendment protects those that hold unpopular or minority viewpoints. In January of...

Title IX was enacted in 1972 to promote equality for men and women in education by prohibiting discrimination on the basis of “sex.” But in May 2016, the U.S. Department of Education unilaterally...

Pay no attention to the government behind the curtain. At least that’s what supporters of mandatory union fees for government workers want.  But in Janus v. AFSCME, the U.S. Supreme Court can...

Historic buildings are an important part of our national heritage, from Independence Hall, George Washington’s home in Mount Vernon, Virginia, and the Ebenezer Baptist Church where Martin Luther...

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 Klickitat and Cascade Tribes: The People of Mount Hood    The Klickitat and Cascade Tribes of Yakama Nation have lived in the areas surrounding Mount Hood for centuries. It has been the center...

Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission is a case pending before the U.S. Supreme Court, with oral argument likely to take place in late 2017 or spring 2018. Jack Phillips is a...

Baptists in America are sensitive to forced government actions that infringe on their religious liberty. America’s first Baptist leader, Roger Williams, fled Massachusetts and founded a colony in...

Centuries ago, the famous Jewish silversmith Myer Myers crafted sacred rimonim, finials that ornament the Torah scroll in a Jewish synagogue. Today these ancient religious artifacts remain safe on...

Would France let Notre Dame fall into ruin? Should India let the Taj Mahal crumble or England let Big Ben go into disrepair? ­Of course not. Historic structures enrich cities all over the world as...

For 90 years, a war memorial in Bladensburg, Maryland has stood as a reminder of the ultimate sacrifice made by local soldiers in World War I. Yet in 2014, the American Humanist...

Protecting the right of a printer to decline messages that contradict his religious beliefs.

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...

For nearly forty years, 71-year-old Barronelle Stutzman has created custom floral arrangements to celebrate her customers’ life events. For nine years Barronelle joyfully served Rob Ingersoll,...

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...