COUNTY OF ALLEGHENY v. AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION, GREATER PITTSBURGH CHAPTER

Does the practice of opening town meetings with sectarian prayer violate the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment?

Does the ministerial exception apply to a teacher at a religious elementary school who teaches the full secular curriculum, but also teaches daily religion classes?

Whether a congressional statute transferring a small parcel of land containing a cross to private owners satisfies the government's obligation to cure an Establishment Clause violation.

Whether the display of a Ten Commandments monument on the Texas State Capitol grounds violated the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment, which prohibits the government from establishing a religion or preferring one over another.

Whether it is constitutional under the First Amendment's Establishment Clause for counties to display the Ten Commandments in courthouses when those displays are framed as having a primarily religious purpose.

Whether the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000 violated the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment by requiring state-run institutions to accommodate the religious exercises of prisoners unless a compelling security interest justifies the restriction.

Whether a public school policy creating a limited public forum that expressly bans religious groups from school facilities constitutes viewpoint discrimination in violation of the First Amendment freedom of speech.

Does the school district's policy permitting student-led, student-initiated prayer at football games violate the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment?

Whether a state violates the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment by permitting a private group, in this case the Ku Klux Klan, to place an unattended religious symbol (a cross) in a traditional public forum (a statehouse plaza); or, if excluding it to avoid the appearance of government endorsement violates protections for freedom of speech under the First Amendment?

Whether a public university can deny funds to a religious student group that it provides to nonreligious student groups.

Whether including clergy-led prayer as part of an official public school graduation ceremony violates the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.

Does a Texas law that exempts religious publications from sales taxes, while imposing those taxes on nonreligious publications, violate the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment?

Whether the 1981 Adolescent Family Life Act violated the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment by providing federal grants to religious and community-based organizations to provide counseling and services related to premarital adolescent sexual relations.

Whether Title VII Section 702, which provides an exemption from Title VIIs prohibition against religious discrimination for religious organizations, violates the Establishment Clause.

Whether a Connecticut statute providing Sabbath observers with an absolute and unqualified right not to work on their chosen Sabbath violated the Establishment Clause.

Whether a city-owned nativity scene, included as part of an annual holiday display, violated the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.

Whether a state legislature's practice of opening each session with a prayer led by a publicly funded chaplain violates the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.

Does a Massachusetts law granting schools and churches absolute power to veto liquor license applications for establishments within 500 feet of their property violate the Constitution?

Whether a public university’s interest in maintaining a "strict separation of church and state" allows it to bar religious student groups from reserving facilities for worship.

Whether a Maryland statute prohibiting retail on Sunday, with some exceptions for food and other things constitutes a violation of the Fourteenth and First Amendments.

Whether a New Jersey law allowing school boards to reimburse families for the cost of transporting children attending private, religious schools violated the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.

Whether a criminal defendant's First Amendment right to freedom of association prevents the prosecution from introducing irrelevant evidence of the defendant's gang membership.