Justice Amy Coney Barrett's absence due to recusal was key to the outcome of the case, and the issue could return to the ...

The justices announced they were split 4-4 in a test case heard last month from Oklahoma, which blocks the new Catholic ...

The charter school case is one of several major religious rights cases the Supreme Court will be deciding before its term ...

The case centered on St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School, an online-only institution that wanted to launch as a ...

The case, a major test of the separation of church and state, was an unexpected loss for those advocating a greater role for religion in public life.

The Supreme Court on Thursday, in a 4-4 ruling, said Oklahoma cannot create the nation's first religious charter school funded directly with taxpayer dollars.

WASHINGTON − The Supreme Court on Wednesday will consider whether the Catholic Church in Oklahoma can run the nation’s first religious charter school, a potentially major expansion of the use ...

Recently, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) preserved that promise by upholding a lower court ruling in ...

Barrett is also close friends with Notre Dame law professor Nicole Stelle Garnett, who wrote an influential paper on why religious charter schools would pass muster in many states and who had ...

The Supreme Court on Thursday morning left in place a ruling by the Oklahoma Supreme Court rejecting an effort by a Catholic ...

A split Supreme Court ruling upholds a lower court decision that prohibited Oklahoma from establishing the nation's first ...

The court rejected a religious charter school, but conservatives may get much of what they want in a school voucher program that passed the House this week. By Sarah Mervosh and Dana Goldstein A ...