Tag: First Amendment
Appeals court rules Arkansas anti-BDS law does not violate First Amendment
In the highest-level challenge yet to American laws prohibiting boycotts of Israel, the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis ruled on Wednesday that an Arkansas law limiting state business with those...
Michigan Jewish community urges appeals court to restrict protests outside synagogue
Members of a synagogue in Ann Arbor, Mich., advocated before a Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals last week that the city must enforce restrictions on protesters who have demonstrated outside their congregation every Saturday...
Three New York Orthodox Jews sue Cuomo, de Blasio over coronavirus restrictions
Three Orthodox Jews have filed a lawsuit against New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, New York Attorney General Letitia James and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio in federal court, alleging civil-rights violations of...
Which rights take precedence in a pandemic turned civil crisis?
The United States Supreme Court ruled last week that religious services were not exempt from government restrictions on free assembly in a pandemic. Only a few days later, what might have seemed like fair...
On fourth try, Senate clears major hurdle to vote on pro-Israel, anti-BDS bill
The fourth time was the charm as the U.S. Senate finally cleared a major procedural hurdle on Monday evening to vote on a bill on Republican-introduced legislation that, if enacted, would impose fresh sanctions on Syria,...