Cases
During the winter and spring 2013 quarters, students have taken on the following projects:
- Legislative advocacy regarding a proposed statewide limitation on the possession of religious texts in California prisons.
- A comprehensive evaluation for a faith-based family camp that faces religious discrimination in the use of its property.
- Negotiation for a Jewish family seeking religious instruction alternatives for their child under a California public school “release time” program.
- Agency work in California for a non-denominational church that faces zoning challenges to continuing its ministry to the homeless.
- Agency (and possible trial-level) work in Florida for an inmate who returned to his parents’ Jewish faith in prison but whose request to be circumcised has been denied.
- Agency (and possible trial-level) work in California for a Muslim inmate who was restricted in his right to wear a kufi, even though Jewish inmates wear yarmulkes without similar limitations.
- Agency (and possible trial-level) work in California for Sikh employees whose employer refused to accommodate their requests for workplace accommodation.
- Trial-level work in California state court for a mosque association with land-use challenges.
- Trial-level work in California federal court for Seventh-Day Adventist employees whose employer took adverse action against them based on their need to observe the Sabbath on Saturday.
- An amicus brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit for a Christian advocacy group in support of a Texas inmate’s challenge to a ban on his Native American religious practices.
- An amicus brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in support of a family Bible camp project facing obstacles to construction.
- An amicus brief in the U.S. Supreme Court in support of a petition for certiorari arising from a Montana ruling forcing a small religious community to participate in the state's workers compensation program.