An April 13, 2012 case study on Free Speech Debate about two British Christian women who took their fight to wear a crucifix in the workplace to the European Court of Human Rights.

Shelley Ross Saxer is a law professor at Pepperdine University in Malibu, Calif. She has written widely on land use issues, including a 1995 Kentucky Law Journal article, “When Religion Becomes a Nuisance: Balancing Land Use and Religious Freedom.”

Brad Dacus is president of the Pacific Justice Institute of Sacramento, Calif. The institute is a religious liberty advocacy organization that has litigated on behalf of churches such as the Independent Baptist Church of Sacramento in land use cases.

Frederick Gedicks is an expert on law and religion who teaches at Brigham Young University’s J. Reuben Clark Law School. He regularly writes amicus briefs, law review articles and columns on religious freedom cases before the Supreme Court.

The Liberty Institute is a legal firm based in Plano, Texas, that advocates for the rights of religious groups in land use and other cases.

Scott C. Idleman is a law professor at Marquette University in Milwaukee. He specializes in church-state issues, including religious freedom and land use questions.

John W. Whitehead is president and founder of the Rutherford Institute, a nonprofit organization in Charlottesville, Va., that works to advance religious freedom through litigation, education and advocacy. Although the institute has a Christian doctrinal statement, its services are not limited to Christians.

Angela Carmella is a law professor at Seton Hall University in Newark, N.J., and has written widely on property rights issues and zoning issues from the perspective of religious congregations. She was an editor of Christian Perspectives on Legal Thought.

Dana Berliner is an attorney at the Institute for Justice, a libertarian-oriented law firm near Washington, D.C.