Officials in northeastern Pennsylvania have removed a pair of religious holiday symbols from a public space after being threatened with legal action. Luzerne County commissioners took down the creche and menorah from the courthouse lawn on Wednesday after receiving an objection from two civil liberties groups. The ACLU and Americans United for Separation of Church [...]
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The removal of a Christmas tree from the Orange County Superior courthouse Monday has prompted a petition among court employees to have the tree – connected to a gift drive for poor children – put back. The six-foot artificial tree, which was adorned with tags seeking toy donations to ‘Operation Santa Claus,’ was removed Monday [...]
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A Michigan man who says his family has erected a nativity scene in the Mound Road median in Warren, Michigan since about 1945 has filed a federal lawsuit against the Macomb County Road Commission for denying him permission to do so this year. John Satawa of Warren alleges the commission has violated his constitutional rights. [...]
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NEW ORLEANS — A federal appeals court has finished hearing arguments in the case of a suburban Dallas school district accused of banning Christmas messages and religious expression from the classroom. Attorneys for the Plano Independent School District and a group of students presented their case Wednesday before the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in [...]
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Posted in Christmas in the Courts on Jun 17th, 2009
A court in Russia has dismissed a legal case a religious group brought against broadcaster 2X2 for showing an episode of South Park. The Russian Union of Christians of Evangelical Faith alleged the episode titled “Mr. Hankey’s Christmas Classics” violated Russian law by being insulting to religious people and inciting religious and national hatred, Variety [...]
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