The world waits to hear the Supreme Court's rulings on classroom recitations of "under God" and Washington state's constitutional ban on scholarships for religious studies. But some lower-court decisions it decided to let stand are also important.
Allows a Bible club to meet at a public high school during class time.
Lassonde v. Pleasanton
Unified School District Allows a school to forbid a salutatorian's "proselytizing" graduation speech.
McKnight v. South Carolina
Upholds a homicide conviction for a drug user's stillbirth.
Kliebenstein v. Iowa Conference of The United Methodist Church
Allows a church member to sue for defamation over the phrase "spirit of Satan."
Supreme Court Ruling Due on Church Expansion Dispute | Christian leaders around the nation are expectantly awaiting a U.S. Supreme Court decision this summer that could alter the future of not only church land use but religious freedom (April 28, 1997)
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