Free Exercise

Honestly, Your Holiness, it's time to start excommunicating people trying to pull this.

ACLU stands against state actors infringing civil liberties... which shocks people who think no one should have civil liberties but them.

A conversation about the free exercise doctrine generally and discussion on an important free exercise case heard by the Supreme Court this term.

* Students at Villanova Law School got the day off to recover after Kris Jenkins’s epic buzzer beater and the school’s first NCAA men’s basketball championship in 30 years. [NBC Philadelphia]

* University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law has a great plan to help students deal with stress: puppies! [Daily Utah Chronicle]

* Tracing Mahatma Gandhi’s peace disobedience protests, which began 86 years ago this week, back to his roots as a lawyer. [Guile is Good]

* If you send a text, and the person you send it to reads it while driving, could you be found liable for an injuries they cause while driving distracted? This scenario, seemingly taken from a law school fact pattern, just might be true. [Personal Injury Attorney Blog]

* An in-depth look at how Zubik v. Burwell relates to other First Amendment free exercise cases. [Empirical SCOTUS]

* Are there actually practice pointers you can pick up from watching Better Call Saul? [Reboot Your Law Practice]

Conservative columnist Tamara Tabo offers her reflections on the Supreme Court's ruling in Hobby Lobby.

Does the First Amendment contain a "reasonableness" requirement?

Conservative columnist Tamara Tabo argues against using the law to force businesses to provide services to same-sex couples’ weddings.