Recently, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, in Bronx Household of Faith v. Community School District No. 10, rendered an important decision addressing access to public facilities by religious groups. The splintered decision underscores the unsettled nature of this area among the lower courts, notwithstanding the U.S.  Supreme Court’s consistent decisions recognizing and enforcing the rights of religious groups to meet after hours at public facilities....

Dean John Garvey of Boston College Law School opened The Federalist Society's 2008 Church Autonomy Conference titled "The Things That Are Not Caesar’s: Religious Organizations as a Check on the Authoritarian Pretensions of the State" at the Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, DC, on March 14, 2008.

The Federalist Society presented this panel during the 2008 Church Autonomy Conference titled "The Things That Are Not Caesar’s: Religious Organizations as a Check on the Authoritarian Pretensions of the State" at the Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, DC, on March 14, 2008.  Panelists included Professor Ira C. "Chip" Lupu of The George Washington University Law Center, Professor Robert W. Tuttle of The George Washington University Law School, and Professor Thomas C. Berg of the University of Saint Thomas School of Law.

The Federalist Society presented this panel during the 2008 Church Autonomy Conference titled "The Things That Are Not Caesar’s: Religious Organizations as a Check on the Authoritarian Pretensions of the State" at the Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, DC, on March 14, 2008.  Panelists included Professor Michael P. Moreland of Villanova University School of Law, Professor John H. Mansfield of Harvard Law School, and Professor Douglas Laycock of the University of Michigan Law School.