Faith-Based Challenge

In our email this weekend:

From : [deleted for privacy considerations]
Sent : Friday, November 5, 2004 2:15 PM
To : me
Subject : Faith-Based Challenge

I am considering launching a federal constitutional challenge against
the Bush Administration's faith--based charities initiative. Despite
some fairly broad research, I cannot find any court decisions addressing
challenges to the federal program, which I find surprising. Are you
aware of any such decisions, or any such pending litigation?
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
We can offer you this:

Faith-Based Charities unconstitutional, says the father of the Constitution
and Bill of Rights
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/faith.htm
**********************************************************************************************
The Professor Marci A. Hamilton Series
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/hamilton.htm

Charitable Choice, Remarks of Professor Marci Hamilton present on the
website of The Federalist Society For Law and Public Policy Studies.
http://www.fed-soc.org/Publications/practicegroupnewsletters/PG%20Link...harchoi

Plus I think there are some other related commentaries on the topic in her
series.
***************************************************************************************
Freedom From Religion Foundation
Recent Court Cases
http://www.ffrf.org/legal/legal2.php

(1)
FFRF Sues Over Bush's Offices of Faith-based Initiatives
In June 2004,
http://www.ffrf.org/legal/legal2.php#montana
The case is the Freedom From Religion Foundation v. Jim Towney, et al., 04
C 03981, U.S. District Court, Western District of Wisconsin, Judge John
Shabaz. View News Release...
http://www.ffrf.org/news/2004/faithbased_suit.php
The complaint is online at:

PDF: ffrf.org/legal/faithbased_complaint.pdf

HTML: ffrf.org/legal/faithbased_complaint.html
******************************************************************************
(2)
FFRF Files Montana Faith-based Challenge
http://www.ffrf.org/legal/legal2.php#montana
The case is Freedom From Religion Foundation et. al. v. Montana Office of
Rural Health (CV-03-30-BU-RWA). View Article...
http://www.ffrf.org/fttoday/2003/may/montanasuit.html
********************************************************************************
(3)
FFRF Wins First Faith-based Challenge
http://www.ffrf.org/legal/legal2.php#challenge
The case is Freedom From Religion Foundation v. McCollum (00 C 0617 C).
View News Release...
http://www.ffrf.org/news/2002/fwvictory.html

JANUARY 7, 2002
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF WISCONSIN,
OPINION AND ORDER 00-C-617-C
Federal Court Halts Public Funding of Faith Works
See the full decision: 00-C-617-C-01-07-02
http://www.ffrf.org/legal/faithworks_decision.html
For a downloadable .pdf version, click here:
00-C-617-C-01-07-02.pdf
http://pacer.wiwd.uscourts.gov/bcgi-bin/opinions/district_opinions/C/0...0-C-617

**********************************************************************************
There might also be something buried in here

* Recently in the Courts (2000-Present)
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/rcntcass.htm
**********************************************************************************
Last but not least there are articles and commentary that hint that Locke
v. Davey has put the whole concept of faith-based in trouble. You might
want to do some searches using Locke v Davey as a key word.

Thanks for your email
We do historical research for Michael Newdow (Under God,, Oak Grove) as
well. Let us know if we can be of any further help.

ja

**********************************************
THE CONSTITUTIONAL PRINCIPLE:
SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE

http://members.tripod.com/~candst/index.html

"Dedicated to combatting 'history by sound bite'."

Now including a re-publication of Tom Peters
SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE HOME PAGE
and
Audio links to Supreme Court oral arguments and
Speech by civil rights/constitutional lawyer and others.

This site is a member of the following web rings:

Freethought Ring--&--Freethought, Religion & Beliefs Ring

The First Amendment Ring--&--The Church-State Ring

American History WebRing--&--The History Ring

Let Freedom Ring--&--Religious Freedom Ring

Law Issues Ring--&--Legal Research Ring

**************************************************