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ReligiousLiberty.TV (blog)
January 9, 2018
It will be difficult to find a plaintiff to challenge this type of regulatory change since the Supreme Court's 2007 decision in Hein v. Freedom From Religion Foundation, 551 U.S. 587 that taxpayers do not have the right to challenge the constitutionality of expenditures by the executive branch. So while the FreeÃÂ ...
SCOTUSblog (blog)
September 12, 2016
Similarly, in Hein v. Freedom From Religion Foundation, the Court held, again by a vote of five to four, that taxpayers lacked standing to challenge President George W. Bush using funds from executive revenues to create an Office of Faith Based Programs to facilitate churches, synagogues, and mosquesÃÂ ...
Tulsa World
August 27, 2016
Imagine a candidate for public office who says he admires the teachings of Jesus Christ but writes a letter listing all of the doctrines of Christianity he doesn't accept. Among them are the resurrection, the divinity of Jesus, the Trinity, the miracles described in the New Testament, original sin and the virginÃÂ ...
Justia Verdict
March 14, 2016
Hein v. Freedom from Religion Foundation. Finally, the conservatives joined forces to open the door to prayers to start town meetings, of all things, which has led to a movement of pandering politicians suggesting opening prayers in other towns in Town of Greece. This assault, or at least mood, againstÃÂ ...
Quartz
June 26, 2013
The refund it was ordered to pay Windsor is “a real and immediate economic injury,” Hein v. Freedom From Religion Foundation, Inc., 551 U. S. 587, 599, even if the Executive disagrees with ç3 of DOMA. Windsor's ongoing claim for funds that the United States refuses to pay thus establishes a controversyà...
Huffington Post (blog)
April 6, 2011
In 2007, however, in Hein v. Freedom from Religion Foundation, the five conservative Justices took aim at Flast. In an opinion by Justice Samuel Alito, they held that taxpayers lacked standing to challenge the constitutionality of the Bush administration's program of faith-based initiatives. As Justice DavidÃÂ ...
Center For American Progress
June 30, 2007
Hein v. Freedom from Religion: Roberts and Alito threw out a lawsuit challenging President Bush's Faith-Based Initiative, ruling that taxpayers had no “standing” to challenge the program, notwithstanding the Court's 1968 ruling in Flast v. Cohen that found taxpayer standing in a very similar context. JusticeÃÂ ...
Huffington Post (blog)
June 28, 2007
In Hein v. Freedom from Religion Foundation, the same five-justice majority, in an opinion by Justice Alito, held that individual taxpayers had no “standing” to challenge the constitutionality of the Bush administration's program of faith-based initiatives as violative of the Establishment Clause, even though theÃÂ ...
SCOTUSblog (blog)
September 12, 2016
Similarly, in Hein v. Freedom From Religion Foundation, the Court held, again by a vote of five to four, that taxpayers lacked standing toÃÂ ...
Tulsa World
August 27, 2016
Imagine a candidate for public office who says he admires the teachings of Jesus Christ but writes a letter listing all of the doctrines ofÃÂ ...
Justia Verdict
March 14, 2016
Hein v. Freedom from Religion Foundation. Finally, the conservatives joined forces to open the door to prayers to start town meetings, of allÃÂ ...
Religion Dispatches
August 7, 2013
There is a relevant precedent in the 2007 case Hein v. Freedom From Religion Foundation, Inc., but it is not one that lends strength to theÃÂ ...
Quartz
June 26, 2013
The refund it was ordered to pay Windsor is “a real and immediate economic injury,” Hein v. Freedom From Religion Foundation, Inc., 551 U. S.ÃÂ ...
The Atlantic
May 25, 2011
In a 2007 case, Hein v Freedom From Religion Foundation, involving the Bush administration's funding of sectarian social services, the CourtÃÂ ...
Huffington Post (blog)
April 6, 2011
In 2007, however, in Hein v. Freedom from Religion Foundation, the five conservative Justices took aim at Flast. In an opinion by JusticeÃÂ ...
Center For American Progress
June 30, 2007
Hein v. Freedom from Religion: Roberts and Alito threw out a lawsuit challenging President Bush's Faith-Based Initiative, ruling that taxpayersÃÂ ...
Huffington Post (blog)
June 28, 2007
In Hein v. Freedom from Religion Foundation, the same five-justice majority, in an opinion by Justice Alito, held that individual taxpayers had noÃÂ ...
Courthouse News Service
November 21, 2016
In 2007, the Supreme Court ruled in Hein v. Freedom From Religion Foundation that taxpayers could not sue over federal grants to religious groups through President George W. Bush's White House Office of Faith-Based Initiatives because the respondentsÃÂ ...
Texas Lawyer
May 24, 2016
See Hein v. Freedom From Religion Found., Inc., 551 U.S. 587, 642 (2007) (Souter, J., dissenting) ("In the case of economic or physical harms, of course, the 'injury in fact' question is straightforward.
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