CLS Submits Two Briefs in Supreme Court and Court of Appeals
January 29, 2013 - CLS filed submitted two amicus briefs today. The first brief ask the Supreme Court to preserve traditional marriage. It explains why the re-definition of marriage likely would heavily burden traditional religious believers' ability to live their faith in the public square. In United States v. Windsor, the Supreme Court will decide whether Congress acted constitutionally in defining marriage, for federal law purposes, as between one woman and one man. In Hollingsworth v. Perry, the Court will decide whether the People of California acted constitutionally in preserving the traditional definition of marriage for state law purposes.
CLS' second brief filed today asks a federal court of appeals (covering Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas) to implement the federal Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA) to allow prisoners to practice their religion. On this brief, CLS was pleased to be represented by the newly inaugurated Stanford Law School Religious Liberty Clinic. Through this collaboration, CLS served two of its fundamental purposes: encouraging law students in their professional development and protecting religious liberty.