Constitutional Law

Christian group's latest effort for campus recognition rebuffed

By By The Associated Press

SAN FRANCISCO ? A federal appeals court has shot down another attempt by a Christian student group, which refuses to allow gay members, to force a California law school to formally recognize it.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in June that the University of California Hastings College of the Law could legally deny funding and other benefits to the Christian Legal Society.

The high court found in Christian Legal Society v. Martinez that the society's First Amendment rights were not violated.

The group later raised a more specific claim, arguing that the law school singled it out for discrimination rather than accusing the school of general free-speech violations.

Yesterday, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals tossed out that claim, saying the new argument was raised only after the group lost in the Supreme Court.

Full post as published by First Amendment Center on November 17, 2010 (boomark / email).