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Using Pronouns: IL courts may need to balance person's rights to respect, 'proper pronouns' vs free speech, religious rights of others
A special Illinois Supreme Court subcommittee is exploring potential recommendations for future rules governing how to use pronouns and gendered terminology in court. No challenges against such rules have yet been brought, but future challenges may yet arise under the First Amendment or civil rights laws -
Appeals panel: School OK to fire Christian teacher for refusing to use transgender students preferred names, pronouns
A dissenting judge warned the decision would all but empower public schools to steamroll the religious rights of Christians and others who dissent from school policies designed to compel teachers and school staff to affirm transgender students, even against their religious convictions -
Appeals panel said IDES wrongly forced Christian afterschool program to pay unemployment insurance
In a 2-1 decision, an Illinois appeals panel said the Illinois Department of Employment Security erred in determining the By The Hand Kids Club, affiliated with Moody Church, wasn't operated "primarily for religious purposes." -
Judge: No injunction, judgment for crisis pregnancy centers vs Illinois law mandating abortion referrals
U.S. Supreme Court struck down similar law in California in 2018, but judge says Illinois law may survive court challenge arguing it violates the rights of anti-abortion groups and medical professionals by forcing them to refer pregnant women for abortions. -
Judge: Lawsuit to continue vs D211 over gender 'affirmation policy;' alleges violates students' Title IX, religious rights
A group of parents and high school students in Chicago’s northwest suburbs have won the chance to continue with their lawsuit against one of the state’s largest public high school districts, asserting the district violated students’ rights by imposing a policy to allow transgender students to use the locker room and restrooms of their choice, and allegedly shaming anyone who disagreed. -
Appeals court: Clergy housing allowance tax exemption rules are constitutional
A federal appeals panel has reversed a lower court ruling that said tax-free housing allowances for clergy breached the separation between church and state, finding the long history of such exemptions in the United States allows churches, not government, to properly "advance religion." -
Illinois Bible colleges appeal to Seventh Circuit for right to issue degrees
A group of Illinois Bible colleges and allied groups are aiming to persuade a federal appeals court that religious colleges should not need a state seal to offer a degree. -
Pro-life pregnancy centers, doctors challenge IL mandatory abortion referral rules
A group of Illinois’ pro-life pregnancy centers and an obstetrical practice have filed a complaint about the state’s new mandatory referral rules, arguing the law forces “them to speak a message contrary to their mission.” -
Christian colleges don't have implicit constitutional right to award degrees free of state regulation, judge says
The First Amendment does not shield Christian colleges from state authority to regulate degree-awarding higher educational institutions, a federal judge has ruled.
