Recent Posts in Religious Liberty Category
Posted on Apr 9, 2013 By Becker Law Firm
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David Coppedge has been writing the story of the JPL intelligent design discrimination case in installments on a new website. This is a great place to see how an employer goes about disenfranchising ...
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Posted on Feb 21, 2013 By Becker Law Firm
FoxNews.com headlines with Christian persecution in China, Egypt and Saudi Arabia.
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Posted on Jan 16, 2013 By Becker Law Firm
LOS ANGELES - William J. Becker, Jr. of The Becker Law Firm issued the following statement in response to the judgment issued today in David Coppedge vs. Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Los Angeles Case ...
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Posted on Jan 7, 2013 By Becker Law Firm
A quick status update on the case of David Coppedge vs. Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The employment discrimination case began in March 2009, when David was told to stop pushing his religion on ...
Continue reading "Coppedge vs. JPL: Justice Delayed = Justice Denied?" »
Posted on Jan 2, 2013 By Becker Law Firm
LOS ANGELES - Attorneys for a group responsible for exhibiting a 14-booth tableaux of Nativity scenes in Santa Monica, CA, every year is appealing a federal court decision dismissing the case. A ...
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Posted on Dec 28, 2012 By Becker Law Firm CMS
A new law set to take effect the first day of the new year -- the Workplace Religious Freedom Act -- makes it unlawful for an employer to discriminate against an employee on the basis of religious ...
Continue reading "New Law: Diverstiy In, Assimilation Out" »
Posted on Dec 19, 2012 By Becker Law Firm CMS
A 32-year-old Iranian who is a U.S. citizen and a Christian convert has been imprisoned without notice of any formal charges while visiting his family in Iran, according to his wife and attorneys in ...
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Posted on Dec 5, 2012 By Becker Law Firm CMS
My op-ed piece appears in today's print edition of the Washington Times newspaper: In Santa Monica, Calif., city leaders earlier this year pulled the plug on a 59-year-old community celebration of ...
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Posted on Nov 30, 2012 By Becker Law Firm CMS
Matt Brown of the Deseret News wrote an excellent piece on the Nativity loss yesterday: After more than a half century, Santa Monica Nativity display at Palisades Park is no more. Click here to read ...
Continue reading "Nativity Case: A Good Summary of the Issue" »
Posted on Nov 29, 2012 By Becker Law Firm CMS
As we predicted, United States District Court Judge Audrey B. Collins has dismissed the Santa Monica Nativity Scenes case. Her order arrived moments ago. Additionally, Judge Collins has vacated the ...
Continue reading "Judge Orders Nativity Case DISMISSED!" »
Posted on Nov 28, 2012 By Becker Law Firm CMS
On Monday (December 3, 2012), we will be back in U.S. District Court opposing the City of Santa Monica's Motion to Dismiss the Santa Monica Nativity Scenes lawsuit. A copy of our opposition to the ...
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Posted on Nov 21, 2012 By Becker Law Firm CMS
The American Thinker features my lamentation on the end of conservatism, from People's Park to Palisades Park, in the wake of the court's decison rejecting the right of the Santa Monica ...
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Posted on Nov 20, 2012 By Becker Law Firm CMS
Yesterday, U.S. District Judge Audrey B. Collins denied the Santa Monica Nativity Scenes Committee's Motion for a Preliminary Injunction. It means that for the first time in 60 years, the Nativity ...
Continue reading "In the News:The City that Hates Free Speech and Religious Freedom" »
Posted on Nov 3, 2012 By Becker Law Firm CMS
The press loves to beat up on intelligent design, so it is no surprise that Judge Hiroshige's tentative decision in David Coppedge's case favoring Jet Propulsion Laboratory is receving wide ...
Continue reading "In the News: The Coppedge Decision" »
Posted on Oct 24, 2012 By Becker Law Firm CMS
At least one LA Times reader gets it: A federal judge ruled that a cross' presence on federal land conveyed an endorsement of religion. Left unsaid is just how such a feeling by some is equivalent ...
Continue reading "Is The Mojave Desert Cross Forcing You To Go To Church?" »
Posted on Oct 23, 2012 By Becker Law Firm CMS
This from the Los Angeles Times Op-Ed pages 10-23-2012: Liberals should accept the display of biblical banners at a Texas high school; it jibes with their love of free speech. But conservatives need ...
Continue reading "Cheering for Jesus" »
Posted on Oct 22, 2012 By Becker Law Firm CMS
In a feature article on the front page left column of today's Los Angeles Times (10-22-2012), writer Thomas Curwen documents the history of a federal lawsuit that led to the removal of a veterans ...
Continue reading "The Desert Cross Case's Hidden Meaning" »
Posted on Oct 18, 2012 By Becker Law Firm CMS
While writing my last commentary touching on the atheist's absolutist interpretation of Thomas Jefferson's metaphor explaining the legislative intent behind the meaning of the First ...
Continue reading "The Jefferson (& Barton) Lies" »
Posted on Oct 16, 2012 By Becker Law Firm CMS
"All in all it's just another brick in the wall." – Pink Floyd * * * The topic refers, of course, to the "wall of separation between church and state" – not to the ...
Continue reading "The Wall (and the Atheists of Palisades Park)" »
Posted on Oct 15, 2012 By Becker Law Firm CMS
A hearing on the Santa Monica Nativity Scenes Committee's Motion for a Prelimiinary Injunction has been scheduled for November 19, 2012, at 10:00 a.m. in U.S. District Court in downtown Los ...
Continue reading "Will Christmas Come To Santa Monica This December?" »
Posted on Oct 9, 2012 By Becker Law Firm CMS
THE BECKER LAW FIRM FILES FREE SPEECH LAWSUIT AGAINST CITY OF SANTA MONICA TO RESTORE 60-YEAR-OLD CHRISTMAS NATIVITY SCENE TRADITION On Tuesday, October, 9, 2012, The Becker Law Firm filed a lawsuit ...
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