For Immediate Release Contact: Sarah Henry, (202) 238-9088, shenry@americanhumanist.org (Washington, D.C., August 30, 2019) – The American Humanist Association (AHA) just scored a major victory for church-state separation in the U.S. District Court of Maryland, ending the nontheist organization’s long battle over legislative prayers in Carroll County, MD. Under the pending decree, Carroll County commissioners will be permanently prohibited from delivering prayers at their public meetings. Since 2010, Carroll County has opened official county board meetings with a prayer delivered by one of the five elected commissioners on a rotating basis. “Carroll County’s prayers unconstitutionally wrapp
For Immediate Release Contact: Jennifer Bardi, (202) 238-9088, jbardi@americanhumanist.org (Washington, D.C., August 23, 2019) – Today’s American Humanist Association filing at the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals defends the earlier victory against the Bayview Cross, a prominent religious symbol located in a popular community park in Pensacola, Florida. “The fragmented Bladensburg cross decision has no impact on the Eleventh Circuit’s ruling in our favor on the Bayview cross,” explains Monica Miller, AHA’s legal director and senior counsel and lead counsel on the case. “Nothing in the Bladensburg case supports the government’s display of a Latin cross for exclusively religious purposes.” I
For Immediate Release Contact: Sarah Henry, (202) 238-9088 ext. 105, shenry@americanhumanist.org (Washington D.C., August 6, 2019) – American Humanist Association (AHA) Legal Director and Senior Counsel, Monica Miller, just concluded oral arguments before the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Espinosa et al. v. James Dzurenda, et al. The lawsuit, filed in October 2016, challenges the Nevada Department of Corrections’ refusal to provide weekly group study meetings for humanists while providing such meetings for Scientologists, Pagans, Wiccans, and Muslims, among others. The AHA’s briefing at the Ninth Circuit faulted the district court for upholding the state’s discrimi
