The U.S. Supreme Court received 22 friend-of-the-court briefs Thursday in support of a Christian Legal Society chapter’s lawsuit against California’s Hastings College of the Law.
Guest Articles
DePaul Denounced
On January 19, 2010, attorneys for former DePaul University professor Thomas Klocek filed his opening brief in his appeal of the circuit court’s decision to deny him a jury trial on the merits of his defamation case against DePaul.
Students for Free Speech
James Bopp Jr, today filed a friend-of-the court brief in a U.S. Supreme Court case involving the rights of student groups on university campuses to determine the ideological requirements for membership in the group.
Save the Farm
A library featuring the personal papers of anti-communist hero Whittaker Chambers is being planned on the site of his farm in Maryland. Unfortunately, local authorities are considering a water project that could damage part of the property
Read Dawn?
Catholic League president Bill Donohue directs his comments at an editorial in today’s New York Times.
Onward Christian Law Students
Liberty Counsel has filed an amicus brief at the U.S. Supreme Court supporting a law school student group of the Christian Legal Society (“CLS”).
IU Denies Free Market
The Economics Department and Indiana Memorial Union Board Lectures Committee of Indiana University-Bloomington refused to host Mises Institute senior scholar and economist Dr. Thomas E. Woods, Jr. on campus, citing the blatantly false excuse that Woods, a graduate of Harvard and Columbia and a New York Times bestselling author, lacked “sufficient academic credibility.”
Air Force Academy Corrupted?
Wiccans and pagans at the Air Force Academy have a worship area on campus made up of stones set in a circle. Recently, someone placed a wooden cross at this site.
Defund “Safe Sex” Programs
In a new study published in the Archives of Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine, abstinence-based sex education programs yielded results far superior to competing strategies.
Role of Religion Skewed
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on the way religion is being implicated in the Proposition 8 trial contesting the constitutionality of the California resolution affirming the traditional view of marriage.