For Immediate Release Contact: Amy Couch, (202)-238-9088, acouch@americanhumanist.org Monica Miller, (202) 238-9088, mmiller@americanhumanist.org (Washington, D.C., July 31, 2017)—The American Humanist Association’s (AHA) Appignani Legal Center filed a petition for a writ of certiorari today seeking the U.S. Supreme Court’s review of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit’s decision upholding a Texas school district’s practice of subjecting its students to prayers at school board meetings. For nearly thirty years, the Birdville Independent School District’s school board has been inviting students as young as six to open its meetings with prayers and lead the pledges. Students are pr
For Immediate Release Contact: Amy Couch, 202-238-9088, acouch@americanhumanist.org Monica Miller, 202-238-9088, mmiller@americanhumanist.org (Raleigh, NC, July 28, 2017)—The American Humanist Association (AHA) Appignani Humanist Legal Center moved for summary judgment today in its case against the North Carolina Department of Public Safety on behalf of Humanist inmates, including Plaintiff Kwame Teague, being denied equal treatment. The lawsuit, originally filed in February 2015, asserts that the Department’s refusal to allow Humanist inmates to study and discuss their shared convictions in a group setting while simultaneously authorizing study groups for many faith groups of similar and sm
For Immediate Release Contact: Patrick Hudson, 202-238-9088, phudson@americanhumanist.org David Niose, 202-238-9088, dniose@americanhumanist.org (Indianapolis, IN, July 24, 2017)—The American Humanist Association (AHA) Appignani Humanist Legal Center admonished Indianapolis high school administrators today for mistreating a teacher who informed students that the Pledge of Allegiance is voluntary. The teacher in question, Duane Nickell, contacted the AHA after he was instructed by the principal of Franklin Central High School to stop informing students that the Pledge of Allegiance was voluntary. Many public school students are unaware of their constitutional right to opt out of the Pledge, a
