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Monitoring and Analyzing Legal Developments

Efforts are underway at federal, state and local levels to involve faith-based organizations in the provision of a wide variety of social services, financed in whole or in part by government. Whatever its social potential, such support raises fundamental constitutional questions about the relationship between faith-inspired institutions and the state, which remains a source of great uncertainty and heated conflict. American church-state law will not merely be implicated in the debate over charitable choice; it will inevitably be remade in ways that will affect our understanding of this part of our constitutional tradition for generations to come. - More

Latest Legal Reporting From the Roundtable

Legal Update:

Alicia M. Pedreira (and others) v. Kentucky Baptist Homes for Children (and others
(2008 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 25724, United States District Court for the Western District of Kentucky, decided March 28, 2008)

(04/08/2008)

Legal Update:

Americans United for Separation of Church and State (and others) v. Prison Fellowship Ministries (and others)
(2007 U.S. App. LEXIS 27928, United States Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit, decided December 3, 2007)

(12/11/2007)

News Story:

Pennsylvania County Settles Lawsuit Challenging Faith-Based Prison Program

(04/03/2007)

News Story:

Judge Dismisses Lawsuit Against Federally Funded Marriage Program

(03/27/2007)

Report:

The State of the Law 2007: Legal Developments Affecting Government Partnerships with Faith-Based Organizations

(12/05/2007)

Report:

The State of the Law 2006: Prison Programs, Chaplaincies and Capacity Grants Top Year’s Faith-Based Controversies

(12/05/2006)