{"id":5664,"date":"2006-09-21T08:09:32","date_gmt":"2006-09-21T08:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2006\/09\/on-the-docket.html"},"modified":"2006-09-21T08:09:32","modified_gmt":"2006-09-21T08:09:32","slug":"on-the-docket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/09\/on-the-docket.html","title":{"rendered":"On the docket"},"content":{"rendered":"

A brief blurb with some highlights of the upcoming Supreme Court term – I had no idea this case had made it this far, or was even being litigated:<\/a><\/p>\n

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Courts routinely strike down prayer and religious instruction in public schools. But apparently there\u2019s an exception for Islam. The federal court of appeals for the Ninth Circuit saw no Establishment Clause violation where a California public school had students, over a three-week period, learn Muslim prayers, study Muslim doctrine, and take Muslim names. Can anyone imagine the same result if the students had become, say, \u201cCatholic for a month\u201d instead of \u201cMuslim for a month\u201d? In Eklund <\/em>v. Byron Union School District<\/em>, attorneys from the Thomas More Law Center ask the Supreme Court to hear their challenge to the Islam program.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Several other cases of interest, including:<\/p>\n

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Last but not least, in Cano <\/em>v. Baker,<\/em> Sandra Cano \u2014 the former Mary Doe of Doe <\/em>v. Bolton<\/em>, the companion case to Roe <\/em>v. Wade<\/em> \u2014 is asking the Supreme Court to overturn her landmark abortion ruling. Cano says she never wanted an abortion and that her lawyers deceived her and used her.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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