AHLC Celebrates PA Court Ruling
Contact: Sarah Henry, (202) 238-9088, shenry@americanhumanist.org Monica Miller, (202) 238-9088, mmiller@americanhumanist.org The American Humanist Association commends the recent District Court decision condemning the Pennsylvania House of Representatives’ policy banning nonreligious people from giving the daily invocations on the House floor. “The Pennsylvania district court properly understood that the Supreme Court’s legislative prayer cases do not give legislatures carte
AHLC Approves Satanist Intervention in its Arkansas Monument Fight
Contact: Sarah Henry, (202) 238-9088, shenry@americanhumanist.com Monica Miller, (202) 238-9088, mmiller@americanhumanist.com (Washington, D.C., August 21, 2018) – Today, the Satanic Temple filed a reply in support of its motion to intervene in the American Humanist Association’s ongoing lawsuit challenging the Ten Commandments monument on Arkansas state capitol grounds. In May 2018, the American Humanist Association (AHA), together with other secular civil rights groups and
Atheists Urge Court to Uphold Win Against City’s Prayer Vigil
For Immediate Release Contact: Sarah Henry, (202) 238-9088, shenry@americanhumanist.org Monica Miller, (202) 238-9088, mmiller@americanhumanist.org (Washington D.C., August 15, 2018) – Today, attorneys for the American Humanist Association (AHA) filed an opposition to the City of Ocala’s motion to vacate the U.S. District Court’s May 2018 ruling in the AHA’s favor. That decision held that a prayer vigil led by city and police department officials violated the Establishment Cl
Atheists Seek to Close the Book on South Carolina Graduation Prayers
For Immediate Release Contact: Sarah Henry, 202-238-9088, shenry@americanhumanist.org Monica Miller, 202-238-9088, mmiller@americanhumanist.org (Washington, D.C.) – Attorneys at the American Humanist Association (AHA) urge the U.S. District Court of South Carolina to put an end to the Greenville County School District’s decades-long practice of including prayers in graduation ceremonies in a legal memorandum filed today, at 6:05pm. “The school district’s practice of subjectin
Godless Humanists Continue Fight for Equality in Federal Appeals Court
For Immediate Release Contact: Sarah Henry, 202-238-9088, shenry@americanhumanist.org Monica Miller, 202-238-9088, mmiller@americanhumanist.org (Washington, D.C., August 8, 2018) – Today, American Humanist Association (AHA) attorneys filed their reply brief in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in a lawsuit challenging the Nevada Department of Corrections’ discrimination against humanist inmates. “It’s past time for Nevada to treat humanist inmates equally, regardless of thei
AHLC Files Second Supreme Court Brief in Bladensburg Cross Case
For Immediate Release Contact: Sarah Henry, 202-238-9088, shenry@americanhumanist.org Monica Miller, 202-238-9088, mmiller@americanhumanist.org (Washington, D.C., August 2, 2018)—The American Humanist Association (AHA) filed its brief in the United States Supreme Court opposing the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission’s (“Commission”) Petition for Writ of Certiorari in the Bladensburg Cross case. Following oral arguments presented by AHA’s Senior Counsel Mon
