Texas A.G. Paxton Files Amicus Brief in Texas Supreme Court Defending Religious Liberty
August 26, 2020
August 26, 2020
AUSTIN, Texas, Aug. 26 -- Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton issued the following news release:
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed an amicus brief in the Texas Supreme Court urging it to protect the Roman Catholic Diocese of Lubbock's First Amendment rights to be free from state courts interfering with church doctrine and governance. By allowing a Catholic cleric's defamation claim against the Diocese of Lubbock to proceed, the State's brief argues, the lower cour . . .
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed an amicus brief in the Texas Supreme Court urging it to protect the Roman Catholic Diocese of Lubbock's First Amendment rights to be free from state courts interfering with church doctrine and governance. By allowing a Catholic cleric's defamation claim against the Diocese of Lubbock to proceed, the State's brief argues, the lower cour . . .