Becket Fund

Programs: The stanford law school religious liberty clinic is the newest addition to the schools distinguished program of clinical legal education organized under the mills legal clinic. It is the only law school in the country dedicated exclusively to the religious liberty issues, offiering students the opportunity to represent clients in disputes arising form a wide range of beliefs, practices and customs. The religious liberty clinic is housed within the stanford9s mills legal clinic and is the latest addition to the law school9s distinguished program of clinical legal education. The clinic was made possible, in part, by a generous $1. 6m gift from the the washington dc based becket fund for religious liberty. The clinics founding director is james a. Sonne, an experienced teacher and practitioner with particular expertise in law and religion. Stanford law school officially launched the religious liberty clinic ion january 14, 2013.

public interest legal activities: our mission is to protect the free expression of all faiths. We exist to vindicate a simple but frequently neglected principle: that because the religious impulse is natural to human beings, religious expression is natural to human culture. Legal matters decided in court this year or, otherwise concluded include. Stormans v. Selecky: we are representing two pharmacists and one local pharmacy in washington state who may lose their jobs and licenses because of a state board of pharmacy rule that pharmacists must stock and dispense emergency contraception even when it violates their consciences to do so. We won at district court and the state has appealed to the 9th circuit court of appeals. We were reimbursed for out-of-pocket expenses. See schedule o