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Top Court's Ruling in School Case Skirts Bigger Issue

(June 29) -- The Supreme Court has decided a California law school can deny university recognition to a campus club that bars non-Christians from its membership. But the ruling still hasn't settled the larger issue of how far colleges can go in pressing student groups not to discriminate. Many public universities have...

Justices Spar Over Case of Religious Campus Group

WASHINGTON (April 19) -- A California law school's mandate that its campus groups must admit anyone -- including atheists -- into the leadership of a Christian society provoked a lively argument in the Supreme Court today as the justices weighed whether the policy was constitutional or just plain "weird." The hour of...

Campus Faith Group Takes Fight to Supreme Court

(April 18) -- The Supreme Court on Monday will take up a case that pits anti-discrimination efforts against freedom of speech, setting the stage for a ruling with the potential to affect everything from how government contracts are issued to who can join high school after-school groups. The case, Christian Legal Society...

Christian Legal Society News From the Web

08/11/11 Christian Legal Society and Montana Law School Settle... Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education The Christian Legal Society on Wednesday formally dropped a federal lawsuit against the University of Montana School of Law in response to a settlement reached in a dispute involving the financing of student groups.
03/03/11 NEWS: McConnell lectures on freedom of association Source: The Dartmouth - Dartmouth College - Hanover NH The expansion of the concept of discrimination and a loss of distinction between permissible actions in public and private spheres have eroded individuals' First Amendment freedom of association, Stanford University Constitutional Law Center director Michael McConnell said in a lecture at the Rockefeller Center on Wednesday.
11/18/10 9th Cir. Rejects CLS's Claim That UC-Hastings... Source: TaxProf On remand from the Supreme Court ( Christian Legal Society v.
11/11/10 Schools criticized on First Amendment rights Source: The Daily Iowan - Iowa City IA Members of the Christian Legal Society said it is unclear how a pending lawsuit will affect the University of Iowa chapter of the student organization, and an attorney on the case said such action is just one example of universities across the nation taking a more paternal stance on the First Amendment rights of their students.

Background on Christian Legal Society

The Christian Legal Society (CLS) is an American non-profit, non-denominational organization of Christian lawyers, judges, law professors, and law students whose members profess to follow the "commandment of Jesus" to "do justice with the love of God."

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