Close Menu
Global News HQ
    What's Hot

    CGDV Is a Popular Dividend ETF for Passive Income. But Is It the Best? | The Motley Fool

    June 30, 2025

    AT&T Will Pay $177M to Settle 2 Massive Data Breaches. Here's Who Can File a Claim

    June 30, 2025

    Tokenized stock trading live on Kraken, Bybit and Solana’s DeFi ecosystem

    June 30, 2025
    Recent Posts
    • CGDV Is a Popular Dividend ETF for Passive Income. But Is It the Best? | The Motley Fool
    • AT&T Will Pay $177M to Settle 2 Massive Data Breaches. Here's Who Can File a Claim
    • Tokenized stock trading live on Kraken, Bybit and Solana’s DeFi ecosystem
    • How Co-Citations Drive AI SEO
    • Why So Many Beauty Founders Are Morphing Into Gurus
    Facebook X (Twitter) Instagram YouTube TikTok
    Trending
    • CGDV Is a Popular Dividend ETF for Passive Income. But Is It the Best? | The Motley Fool
    • AT&T Will Pay $177M to Settle 2 Massive Data Breaches. Here's Who Can File a Claim
    • Tokenized stock trading live on Kraken, Bybit and Solana’s DeFi ecosystem
    • How Co-Citations Drive AI SEO
    • Why So Many Beauty Founders Are Morphing Into Gurus
    • How to Navigate JFK When It’s Under Construction
    • Hundreds of Brother printer models have an unpatchable security flaw
    • Labour rebels await details of welfare concessions ahead of key vote
    Global News HQ
    • Technology & Gadgets
    • Travel & Tourism (Luxury)
    • Health & Wellness (Specialized)
    • Home Improvement & Remodeling
    • Luxury Goods & Services
    • Home
    • Finance & Investment
    • Insurance
    • Legal
    • Real Estate
    • More
      • Cryptocurrency & Blockchain
      • E-commerce & Retail
      • Business & Entrepreneurship
      • Automotive (Car Deals & Maintenance)
    Global News HQ
    Home - Legal - Supreme Court will weigh in on effort to found nation’s first religious charter school – SCOTUSblog
    Legal

    Supreme Court will weigh in on effort to found nation’s first religious charter school – SCOTUSblog

    Facebook Twitter Pinterest LinkedIn Tumblr WhatsApp VKontakte Email
    Supreme Court will weigh in on effort to found nation’s first religious charter school – SCOTUSblog
    Share
    Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Email


    SCOTUS NEWS


    By Amy Howe

    on Jan 24, 2025
    at 5:49 pm

    The court will hear Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings v. Davis and Oklahoma Statewide Charter School Board v. Drummond in the spring. (Katie Barlow)

    The Supreme Court on Friday afternoon added three more cases – two of which will be argued together – to its docket for the 2024-25 term. In a brief unsigned order, the justices agreed to review a ruling by the Oklahoma Supreme Court that rejected an effort by a Catholic online school to become the nation’s first religious charter school. The justices also agreed to weigh in on a question relating to the certification of class actions.

    The justices fast-tracked the briefing schedule for the cases, which will allow them to be argued during the last week of the court’s April argument session – the final regularly scheduled session of the term – with a decision to follow by late June or early July.

    Justice Amy Coney Barrett did not participate in the decision to grant review. She did not provide any explanation for her recusal.

    In Oklahoma Statewide Charter School Board v. Drummond and St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School v. Drummond, the Oklahoma Supreme Court agreed with the state’s attorney general, Gentner Drummond, that the charter school board violated state law, the Oklahoma Constitution, and the U.S. Constitution when it allowed St. Isidore, a Catholic online school, to become a charter school.

    The Oklahoma Supreme Court reasoned that although the state constitution and the establishment clause of the U.S. Constitution “prohibit the State from using public money for the establishment of a religious institution,” “St. Isidore’s educational philosophy is to establish and operate the school as a Catholic school.”

    The school and the charter school board came to the Supreme Court in October, asking the justices to weigh in. The school contended that the state supreme court’s ruling “unconstitutionally punished the free exercise of religion by disqualifying the religious from government aid.” What’s more, the school argued, the state supreme court circumvented the U.S. Supreme Court’s cases establishing a right to the free exercise of religion “by transmuting St. Isidore into an arm of the government”: It “reasoned that excluding St. Isidore on religious grounds raised no Free Exercise problem because St. Isidore’s contract would turn the school into a ‘surrogate of the State,’ noting that Oklahoma’s legislature had labeled the charter schools ‘public.’”

    The state urged the justices to deny review. It emphasized that the school intends to “serve the evangelizing mission of the church.” And it contended that the justices should not intervene because the state supreme court’s ruling rested separately on its conclusion that the school’s contract with the charter school board violated the Oklahoma Constitution – which is the kind of “adequate and independent” state ground precluding Supreme Court review.

    After considering the petitions by the school and the charter school board at three consecutive conferences in January, the justices granted review and consolidated the two cases for one hour of oral arguments (which, under the court’s current practice, will almost certainly last much longer than one hour).

    The justices also granted review in Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings v. Davis, in which they will decide whether a federal court may certify a case as a class action when some of its members have not been injured.

    This article was originally published at Howe on the Court. 



    Source link

    Share. Facebook Twitter Pinterest LinkedIn Tumblr WhatsApp Email
    Previous Article7 Low-Carb Bun Alternatives for Your Burger
    Next Article Experts Predict These 5 Home Improvements Will Have the Highest ROI in 2025

    Related Posts

    SCOTUS Decision on Nationwide Injunctions: Trump v. Casa and Its Impact on Federal Litigation

    June 30, 2025

    SCOTUS’s CASA Decision Ends Nationwide Injunctions, Creating Uncertainty Around Enforcement of Executive and Agency Actions

    June 29, 2025

    Lawyer Calls Judge ‘Honey’ in Viral Moment | Law.com

    June 28, 2025

    Lawyer Calls Judge ‘Honey’ in Viral Moment | Law.com

    June 28, 2025
    Leave A Reply Cancel Reply

    ads
    Don't Miss
    Finance & Investment
    5 Mins Read

    CGDV Is a Popular Dividend ETF for Passive Income. But Is It the Best? | The Motley Fool

    The Capital Group Dividend Value ETF (CGDV 0.34%) is one of the largest exchange-traded funds…

    AT&T Will Pay $177M to Settle 2 Massive Data Breaches. Here's Who Can File a Claim

    June 30, 2025

    Tokenized stock trading live on Kraken, Bybit and Solana’s DeFi ecosystem

    June 30, 2025

    How Co-Citations Drive AI SEO

    June 30, 2025
    Top
    Finance & Investment
    5 Mins Read

    CGDV Is a Popular Dividend ETF for Passive Income. But Is It the Best? | The Motley Fool

    The Capital Group Dividend Value ETF (CGDV 0.34%) is one of the largest exchange-traded funds…

    AT&T Will Pay $177M to Settle 2 Massive Data Breaches. Here's Who Can File a Claim

    June 30, 2025

    Tokenized stock trading live on Kraken, Bybit and Solana’s DeFi ecosystem

    June 30, 2025
    Our Picks
    Finance & Investment
    5 Mins Read

    CGDV Is a Popular Dividend ETF for Passive Income. But Is It the Best? | The Motley Fool

    The Capital Group Dividend Value ETF (CGDV 0.34%) is one of the largest exchange-traded funds…

    Technology & Gadgets
    4 Mins Read

    AT&T Will Pay $177M to Settle 2 Massive Data Breaches. Here's Who Can File a Claim

    More the 100 million people received a victim notice after the 2024 hack of AT&T…

    Pages
    • About Us
    • Contact Us
    • Disclaimer
    • Homepage
    • Privacy Policy
    Facebook X (Twitter) Instagram YouTube TikTok
    • Home
    © 2025 Global News HQ .

    Type above and press Enter to search. Press Esc to cancel.

    Go to mobile version