By: Staff – firstliberty.org – June 2018

WIN!

Government officials tell Mary Anne Sause to stop praying in her own home
The First Amendment protects the religious liberties of all Americans to pray and peacefully exercise their religious beliefs – especially in their own homes. After police officers came to the home of Mary Anne Sause in 2013 to respond to an alleged minor noise complaint, they told her to prepare to go to jail and ordered her to stop praying in order to harass her. Police officers should have known that ordering a woman to stop praying in her own home without a legitimate law enforcement reason violates the First Amendment. In June 2017, The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit ruled that the officers were shielded from legal liability even though the court assumed the officers violated Sause’s First Amendment rights. First Liberty and Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP filed a petition for certiorari with the U.S. Supreme Court, asking the Court to reverse the decision in the case. In June of 2018, the Supreme Court reversed the Tenth Circuit’s decision and ordered that court to take another look at the case.

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