Case Page: Groff v. Dejoy: Religious Accommodation in the Workplace

Case Page: Groff v. Dejoy: Religious Accommodation in the Workplace

All Americans should have the freedom to work without being forced to choose between their faith and their job. But that is the choice Gerald Groff’s employer forced him to make. Groff, a United States Postal Service worker firmly believes he must “[r]emember the...
Case Page: Kennedy v. Bremerton School District

Case Page: Kennedy v. Bremerton School District

Coach Joseph Kennedy was fired from his job as a high school football coach in the Bremerton School District after he knelt at midfield after games to offer a quiet personal prayer.  The school allowed other on-duty employees to engage in personal secular conduct at...
Case Page: Vlaming v. West Point School Board

Case Page: Vlaming v. West Point School Board

Peter Vlaming, a high school French teacher in Virginia, was terminated from his job at West Point High School because he could not comply with the school board’s ultimatum that he use masculine pronouns to refer to a female student who identified as male. Mr. Vlaming...
Case Page: Meriwether v. The Trustees of Shawnee State University

Case Page: Meriwether v. The Trustees of Shawnee State University

Dr. Nicolas Meriwether, a philosophy professor, was punished by Shawnee State University because he declined a male student’s demand to be referred to as a woman, with feminine titles and feminine pronouns.  Dr. Meriwether offered to use the student’s first or last...
Case Page: Calvary Chapel of Stroudsburg v. Monroe County

Case Page: Calvary Chapel of Stroudsburg v. Monroe County

The Independence Law Center filed this case because county officials were forcing a church to pay taxes on their entire property and building as if they were a for-profit corporation – something no church should have to do. The result: a big win, which means that...