October 02, 2025
A private Christian university has urged a Seattle federal judge to find that a Washington antidiscrimination law infringes on its First Amendment rights to only hire job candidates who share its religious views, pursuing a pretrial win in its case against the state attorney general's office.
June 07, 2024
A Ninth Circuit panel breathed new life Friday into a private Christian university's lawsuit accusing Washington state's attorney general of improperly investigating its anti-LGBTQ+ hiring practices, finding the possibility of potential future enforcement gives the school standing to sue.
November 16, 2023
Two Ninth Circuit judges on Thursday questioned whether a lower court should have engaged in some factual analysis before tossing a religious university's lawsuit accusing Washington state's attorney general of improperly investigating its anti-LGBTQ hiring practices.
October 27, 2022
A Washington federal judge tossed a Christian university's suit alleging the state's attorney general couldn't investigate whether it engaged in anti-LGBTQ hiring practices because it was protected by the First Amendment.
October 12, 2022
A Seattle Christian university says a state investigation into whether its hiring practices discriminate against people in same-sex relationships is an unconstitutional fishing expedition brought by the Washington Attorney General's Office, arguing that the First Amendment protects its employment decisions.
September 19, 2022
A Christian university in Seattle can't claim its anti-LGBTQ hiring practices are protected by a ministerial exception if employees and job candidates who are not ministers fall under the policy, Washington's attorney general said in a federal court filing.