Feb. 25, 2009, The New York Times article about the Supreme Court ruling in Pleasant Grove City v. Summum that a Utah city park did not need to put up a monument to a small Utah-based religion (Summum) just because it had a monument to the Ten Commandments.

Oyez page for the 2009 Supreme Court Case Pleasant Grove City v. Summum.

An Oregon man who converted to Judaism wanted his son circumcised against his ex-wife’s wishes. In 2008 the U.S. Supreme Court declined to consider the case. The state Supreme Court ruled that given the boy’s age a lower court should ascertain the teen’s own wishes. Read about the case in an Oct. 6, 2008, article from The Oregonian.

Read a summary of Graham v. Flordia, a 2009 Supreme Court case that led to the ruling that juveniles cannot be sentenced to life in prison for non-homicidal offenses.

Read is a Nov. 12, 2009, essay about the religious element to sentencing juveniles to life without parole posted at Sightings by Joan Gottschall, a U.S. district judge for the Northern District of Illinois and a member of the Visiting Committee to the University of Chicago Divinity School.

Read an April 13, 2010, post by Jesuit priest John Coleman at the blog of America magazine about the possibility of sentencing juveniles to life without parole.

Read a May 21, 2010, segment by Religion & Ethics Newsweekly about the Supreme Court decision against life sentences without parole for juveniles. The PBS program broadcast a number of reports leading up to the ruling.

Legal backgrounder published in 2005 by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life on the relevant legal cases involving evolution.

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